Welcome to the Mazda3 family!

 

There were cars back then?

 

lol the thread needed a conclusion

 

My friends got a Saab & loves it! I think he's at about 100k & running strong, he even did a CAI.

 

You my friend, are late to the party!

 

looking good, congrats man!

i cant wait til i get that new car feeling couple years from now...

 

GOOD CHOICE! AND you got the hatchback!

 

unles seller is hard up for cash, you are going to have a hard time finding a low milage CL-S /6 for 8K KBB puts them at almost 12K with their milage at 77K average

there is a 2003 5at for sale here asking price is $11,911

TL-S range from $5K to $13K

Here is the $5K car

http://autotrader.autos.msn.com/fyc/...standard=false

 

Nice car, my friend had the Mazda 3 sedan, same color, same year. He got an intake and then traded it in for a MS3.

Personally I would have tried for the 02-03 Maxima 6spd.

 

Hope your enjoyin the new car dude! rackz look dope man!

 

^ ms3

 

hawt

 

The steering and handling in the Mazda3 is much better than the 02-03 Maxima. IMO

Im a snob and absoutly love driving the Mazda3. Fun little machine. Its no wonder it makes top 10 lists in many magazines.

 

hehe i'm a smartass but i'd have to email them and ask if they would take 11,872

 

my friend has one of these. Its an awesome car.

 

Thanks everybody!

I'll have to take a pic of it now in full blown, salt/snow covered winter mode.

 

Congrats on not getting the new SMILE all the time version!!!!

Looking good

 

No kidding. I am a huge Mazda fan, as you might guess, but MAN they screwed up the 3 with the front end of the new ones.

 

 

 

nice!!

 

...any new mods?... I know ur still really enjoyn it!!!

 

No mods, besides the snowboard racks just driving and stuff. Just enjoying it for what it is, I can't really bring myself to mod it. Don't want to get too attached like I did to my CL, which I miss dearly.

This car still drives great!

 

Sorry to bring this back from the dead, but I snapped new pics this weekend at the Rolex Grand Am at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut this weekend!



Here's me crossing the finish line on our Parade lap



It was so cool to be able to drive on the track, even if we got gipped out of a few laps.



Shot from in my car while driving on the track

One of the race cars


Starting lap of one of the races

 

nice car and nice pics

 

i call your roof rack into question

 

I like the pedobear reflection in the one picture lmao

 

Congrats!! The hatch is very euro... I like!

 

The car looks good. Got anything planned for it?

 

I promise I've had it off for the majority of summer, since I haven't bought a kayak yet. I just put it on for show at the meet.

Thanks!

A mod from my mazdaforum let me test drive his 3 and hoooly crap. He's got probably 200hp to the crank as opposed to the stock 160 crank hp, it friggin pulled pretty good. I want my car to drive exactly like his, so I've got a bit of work to do.

Thus far I plan

-motor mounts (I already got inserts, but it's not enough)
-header
-mazdaspeed3 oem catback
-tein s-techs
-camber arms for the rear
-short shifter
- I forgot what exactly the guy did, but he did a delete on something preventing the vvt from opening early, but I'll be doing that too

We'll see! I gotta pay off my new camera first before I can do anything else.

 

Niceeeeee looks like you had ton of fun there..

any ms3 at the event?

i guess the regular 3s have shitty rmm like us ms3s huh? lol cpe rmm 75 ftw man. inserts just don't cut it.

 

There were a few ms3s!

I actually won the bumper off a ms3 racecar in a free raffle, it was signed by all of the mazda drivers.... here's a pic