Review: 2010 Mazdaspeed3 is sitting on the bubble

[DISIMS3]

I love that my car gets a grilling from the motoring journalists, absolutely.

So it scares off all the pussies who think "torque steer" will kill them just by touching the wheel.Amatuers of an MPS and drive a camry.

I ALWAYS feel safe in my car, dry or wet conditions because if i drive to the conditions i can still cover ground at immense speeds comfortably. Like hell i am going to go the ragged edge of handling or clutch dump and flat shift my daily driver.

I would love to see a 20 run 0 - 400m shoot out between an MPS and WRX, after about run 7-9 the wrx clutch would be fried and i could do a 18 second pass and still win haha.

"A mazda 3 mps is a muscle car for the new generation of drivers, A car with brawn and muscle born from the fires of hell itself"

That's my definition and if i like such a car then i must be the devils right hand man.

Shibbs

You should be in advertising Shiv. "Born from the fires of hell itself". LOVE IT

[shakespeare]

Motoring journos are a product of their environment..
They must drive that many cars that unless its RWD and they can make the arse swing out they are bored as bat ..

And because of this, when they drive a FWD and get some steering tug they dont like it...

Sure ive just made all that up but it sounds plausible, and my theory - so im sticking to it :P

Couldn't have said it better

When I test drove the 3 MPS Gen I the only time I got a little concerned with torque steer was when it was wet and the roads were slick as! (DSC off) Not really a problem, then again in a RWD car in the wet when you get into a power oversteer, I'd buy one if I was replacing the 6! just don't be crazy on the wrong roads/conditions and it'll be fine

[LILZLR]

Motoring journos are a product of their environment..
They must drive that many cars that unless its RWD and they can make the arse swing out they are bored as bat ..

And because of this, when they drive a FWD and get some steering tug they dont like it...

Sure ive just made all that up but it sounds plausible, and my theory - so im sticking to it :P

Couldnt have said it any better

[Nirvandan]

I could have, just dont wan to

[TheJunglist]

Motoring journos are a product of their environment..
They must drive that many cars that unless its RWD and they can make the arse swing out they are bored as bat ..

And because of this, when they drive a FWD and get some steering tug they dont like it...

Sure ive just made all that up but it sounds plausible, and my theory - so im sticking to it :P

hahaha so true

[Jmac]

Pussies!!

[bd581]

I was so worried the first time I drove mine, but I drove it like I normally would on the test and found it no different to my sp23. Bought the car and had to do a little bit of peak hour Sydney driving, gave me a bit of experience in the car, but still no hard acceleration, though I did get a couple of tiny squirts.
Finally on the way home I got to hit it coming onto the expressway.
3rd gear, 3/4 throttle, 1 hand on the wheel, other ready to change gears. Yes it pulled left, but not nearly as bad as a lot of lower powered FWD cars I've driven.
From that point on I realised both hands on steering wheel if acceleration in anything but a straight line, or at least, expect some torque steer, so hold on a bit tighter
no issues with it anymore

I think my sp23 torque steered worse, mainly because to say get across an intersection in whatever time, you had to push the sp harder to do the same ting as the mps

even let my brother drive it the other day with dsc and traction control off, he gave it a relatively hard take off (nothing too hard on the car) and even he was very suprised. Didn't think it was much worse than his current model 2.4ltr vrx lancer

I've had an argument with the guy from our local repco who reads too much. He carried on about how bad the torque steer is, and how bad the Mazda suspension and diff is because it torque steers much worse than all it's competitors.
Simple reason for that is, it has more torque than the others.

But let's just face it. Who cares about off the line performance, in daily use it's not required and way to hard on the car, mid range acceleration (80-120km/h) is the true test of performance I believe. It's the most important test for real world driving.
And that is something nobody has ever complained that the mps lacks

even my biased BF GT 302kw falcon driving boss is increadibly impressed

[philbie13]

I love that my car gets a grilling from the motoring journalists, absolutely.

So it scares off all the pussies who think "torque steer" will kill them just by touching the wheel.Amatuers of an MPS and drive a camry.

I ALWAYS feel safe in my car, dry or wet conditions because if i drive to the conditions i can still cover ground at immense speeds comfortably. Like hell i am going to go the ragged edge of handling or clutch dump and flat shift my daily driver.

I would love to see a 20 run 0 - 400m shoot out between an MPS and WRX, after about run 7-9 the wrx clutch would be fried and i could do a 18 second pass and still win haha.

"A mazda 3 mps is a muscle car for the new generation of drivers, A car with brawn and muscle born from the fires of hell itself"

That's my definition and if i like such a car then i must be the devils right hand man.

Shibbs

i did about 17 runs 1n my 3mps in one night problems at all running 14's to 13.5 clutch never gave up lol.

[YOU LOSE]

Motor jurno;s are a weird bunch im sure they actually believe what they write .My only brush with one was when I handed him the keys to madaz he broke out in a cold sweat ,went dry in the mouth and mumbled something like these cars could kill you .If that's the reputation they have conjured up after watching the multiple roll over at Bathurst to many times then so be it as Shiv said I'm glad the mps has them all sweaty in the palms bunch of numnuts

Col

[steve7680768]

The latest version is very cool.... And its price is also very low...