If you’ve followed the first two updates on our Mazda 3 Maxx long-termer (read them here and here), you’ll know that the very fact that I’m writing this third instalment rather than the car’s official custodian, Dan, is significant.
In his most recent update, CarAdvice’s deputy editor and chief road tester said a few more weeks behind the wheel of our $24,990 before on-road costs, six-speed automatic, Blue Reflex Mica Mazda 3 hatchback were needed to determine if it was loveable, or merely liveable.
But between back-to-back FG X Falcon comparisons, a journey to the future in a handful of hybrids and EVs, a bush bash to old NSW mining town Hill End in a quartet of diesel SUVs, and most recently a well-earned break in the US off the back of the Detroit motor show, Dan spent very little time with his long-termer.
He also, however, confessed to becoming “a little bit disappointed†with the 3 recently â€" a feeling he says stems from a three-way comparison with the Volkswagen Golf and Peugeot 308, in which the latter two proved their superiority in terms of ride quality and road noise, and the 3 left him ruing the new model’s inferior dynamics compared with its predecessor.
Their ‘conscious uncoupling’, in the infamous words of Gwyneth Paltrow, has given other members of the CA office the chance to spend some time getting acquainted with a car that the Australian public seems to have no issue with, having made the Mazda 3 the top-selling private car in the country yet again last year.
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