Credit Brian Champagne In the Japanese carmaker Mazda’s latest sales numbers, the Mazda3 is in third place. Those figures came out around the same time the Mazda3 won yet another award from automotive journalists. But awards and sales don’t always go hand in hand. The Mazda3 is a hot four-door hatch that gets going from a 2.5-liter turbo, so it can still get 31 miles per gallon on the highway. But all that performance talk has lost some of you already.
That driving fun did get the attention of the local automotive media. The Mazda3 turbo all-wheel drive was chosen as the vehicle of the year by 45 members of the Rocky Mountain Automotive Press, or RMAP, which” has influencers and journalists from Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska.