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MOTOR Magazine Australia
|November 2018
A sleeper with a true sting in its tail.
IN 2006 MAZDA turbocharged the new 3 to create its first serious hot hatch. Yet this is a car that time is beginning to forget, quite unfairly if you ask us.
The Mazda Performance Series (MPS) version of the 3 joined the RX-8, NC series MX-5 and 6 MPS to establish one of the company’s most performance-focused model line-ups. At its heart was a 2.3-litre direct injected four-cylinder shared with the all-wheel-drive 6 MPS. And despite its powertrain driving only the front axle, the 3 MPS wasn’t penalised a single kilowatt or newton metre.
This story is from the November 2018 edition of MOTOR Magazine Australia.
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