Recent content by blizzard

What you are saying is that there will only EVER be 750 of these cars in Canada? What about 2008? No sunroof/Moonroof is a deal breaker for me. I am no longer interested in this car... Too bad - I guess it's a GTI or R32 (if the R32 ever comes to Canada).

It is kinda bothering me that the MS3 is going to REQUIRE premium gas (just like the MS6). I know it's good to feed your car the good stuff - but with the price of car getting astronomical, and assuming the mileage will be worse then my Protege5 - it's going to be expensive filling 'er up all...

Not Fair I totally know that the MS3 and the R32 are not competitors in anyway, and especially so in terms of price... I never said the were equivalent/competitors at all. The R32, however, it is most definitely one of the cars I am considering (the 3 cars are 2007 GTI in 4 door with DSG, R32...

Yeah, I am pretty excited about it. I am kinda debating between this car and the new VW R32 if they bring it to Canada. I just need to see prices/options/colours that will be available.

Either that is a very bad picture, or there is something else the matter. I have JDM tails on my car and DO NOT have any sort of orange part. Where that orange part is in the picture I for sure have a reflector - but it isn't orange. I think what happened there is just that the flash from the...

All this is copied from www.mazda.ca It must have just gone up becuase it wasn't there on Monday. Looks good - I am excited about the summer delivery!!! They have also set up a forum on mazda.ca to discuss the upcoming Mazda vehicles with a Mazda admin. Check that out at...

Racing Sorry man, I don't think that you are going to get much love from anyone around here in regards to street racing. Yeah, I totally agree with you - there are a crap load of tarted up Civics here in Vancouver that have NO go at all. However, racing on open streets is STUPID!!! I have to...

Thanks for the compliment - same to you!! Nice ride!! I lowered my car about 2 weeks after those pictures on MSP springs/struts. Unfortunately I have not had a chance to take any more pictures... When I look at those pics now I think my car looks like a 4x4 (thumb)

17 x 7... I almost went with the Mazda3 wheels instead, but desided against them because they were only 6.5 and Goodyear didn't recommend that for 215/40/17 Eagle F1s... I have a crap load of pics of my Protege5 with the MSP wheels wheels here. I know it's not a Mazda3, but it's a hatch!!!!

Oviously more expensive cars, but Audi S4 and RS4 and BMW M3 are 3 cars that come to mind immediately... let's see if I can think of any others...

Yeah, I can understand the boring/everyone has five-spoke thing - totally true. I find the multi spoke super boring. I would have said Mazda had grown some balls if they had put on some BBS RC's or something similar (my point is just a GOOD looking multi-spoke design) in 8" width. Those...

It's is not going to make be "not buy it", but after looking at the pictures here I really am not a fan of those wheels at all... The MSP wheels were SOOOO gorgeous (that's why I bought them for my car) - it is dissapointing to me to see those multi-spoke ones. They are better than the MS6, no...

Yeah - what is with Mazda's stupid tire sizes? 215/45/18?!?!? 25.62" outside diameter... No Michelin PS2s in this size, no Goodyear Eagle F1s. In fact a total of 8 tires are all that tirerack.com lists in that size... Even the marginly larger 225/45/18 really has no options. What are we going to...

Hey, one pound foot of torque is equal to 1.3558 Newton Meters (note that it is pound feet of torque, not the commonly mis-quoted foot per pound which is not a unit of anything ;) !!!). One PS (pferdestarke) = 0.9863201 HP So 380 Nm = 280.27 lbfft and 250 PS = 246.58 HP Hope that helps!!

Hey, I too am interested by how the two of these cars stack up. If the MS3 seriously is going to have 250hp then is probably isn't really fair to compare - but we are still speculating!!! I am seriously contemplating the GTI, but don't want to get out of my Protege5 too quickly if the MS3 if...