| Title: | Cars in the UK |
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| Moderator: | COMICS::SHELLEY ELD |
| Created: | Sun Mar 06 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Any comments on the new shape Mazda 323? Performance, standards,
drawbacks etc.?
Liz
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2502.1 | go for a Honda | KAOFS::M_NAKAGAWA | Wed Mar 20 1996 18:34 | 15 | |
I happen to be driving one of them last 5 days.
It's a free rent a car from the body shop, it has 20,000Km on the
clock, hatch back body, automatic.
I am -not- impressed with it at all.
- Poor performance.
- Poor seats (too short, no holds)
- Power steering is too light.
- Low stability.
May be reliable though...
Mitz
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| 2502.2 | CBHVAX::CBH | Mr. Creosote | Wed Mar 20 1996 19:20 | 4 | |
Didn't Ford buy out Mazda, or at least enter into a partnership? Therein lies the problem, I suspect... Chris$ever_cynical. | |||||
| 2502.3 | KAOFS::M_NAKAGAWA | Wed Mar 20 1996 23:41 | 9 | ||
.-1
Ford has Mazda's share.
25%? or 40%? or even 49% but less than 50% for sure.
Escort and 323 are twin sisters.
Mitz
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| 2502.4 | used to be 40% | WOTVAX::STONEG | Temperature Drop in Downtime Winterland.... | Thu Mar 21 1996 09:13 | 1 |
| 2502.5 | More Mazdas | KERNEL::BELLAL | Alastair Bell | Tue May 07 1996 18:46 | 10 |
I had a brief drive of the new 323 V6. Very impressive! Probably oneof
the smoothest engines I've ever driven.... And the seats were very
comfortable too. I've heard and noticed that they have a bit of a
problem with misting up the glass... but aircon (if you can afford it)
would probably fix that. My wife has a 1.8 323 of the previous shape
and aside from parts prices we find it to be a great little car.
On that basis if we were to buy one we would probably go for the 1.8 as
it is much cheaper than the V6 and gives reasonable performance
(although not as good as the last one).
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