Mazdaspeed5
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I had a chance to go up to an event for MazdaSpeed certified dealers at MNAO in Irvine on tuesday for an event called Street Heat. It was to showcase the new MS Protege. I must say it is NICE!!! The handling is superb, as is the braking. The Turbo makes good power but is in dire need of a downpipe. The boost just falls off past 5500 rpm and levels out. The LSD is excellent though, allowing large two tire smoky burnouts. I have a 02 P5 with CAI,Exh,and cams, and it feels signifigantly faster. They even had an 02 MP3 with the same exact kit and it ran flawlessly. The only problem I saw is that Mazda is going to sell every part to make one except the exh. manifold, they are going to require that we send and defective mani before a new one is sent to us.
I aslo had a chance to see and sit in the Mazda6, and the wagon, they were both excellent looking and should hit the nail on the head. The wagon had facory 18's!!!! If anyone is going to SevenStock you will probably get a chance to see them and more. I heard talk from the designers of a Mazda 3. Which by my guess would be a Protege5 minus two doors and about $14-$15K
Thats all I got for now I will keep you posted as I hear anything good.
I aslo had a chance to see and sit in the Mazda6, and the wagon, they were both excellent looking and should hit the nail on the head. The wagon had facory 18's!!!! If anyone is going to SevenStock you will probably get a chance to see them and more. I heard talk from the designers of a Mazda 3. Which by my guess would be a Protege5 minus two doors and about $14-$15K
Thats all I got for now I will keep you posted as I hear anything good.