All-New Mazdaspeed3 aka Mazda3 MPS Hatchback Spotted for First Time on N?rburgring

Absolute Dog???...this is way cheaper than the likes of an evo and sti (bang for your buck)..Looks like a good package to me, and if your from America you can't compare it to the Megane...so yeah it was reviewed

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Perhaps, but as the article says, this could have AWD.

I haven't heard that said for a couple of years. LSDs have moved on a lot since then. I hope this is AWD though.

It could 'smoke' the STI, but smoking the Evo? pfft, that will even be a hard challenge for the 6 MPS to do right now! =P

ok here we go... "All of which only confirms something we?ve known for a long time: speed alone isn?t enough. Mazda can give itself a pat on the back for making a 256bhp front-drive hatch manageable, but you don?t get the better of cars like the Focus ST and M?gane 230 with power alone." - from EVO... then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUS3xmhz04c how much proof do you Noobs need?

I remember seeing this yonks ago? what did they do with video-star ?Monkey?? (Chris? Whatshisface?) By the way, shouldn?t ?Noobs? be spelt ?Nobbs?? Fair point with the video: assuming you have access to a Welsh-like country road to drive on (as this was the basis for the test!). Focus ST didn?t make it into the top 3 and this is the new Mazda3 MPS which may (or may not) better than its predecessor (which I didn?t like that much) video tested here. Now what if, most of your roads are dual carriage-ways? Like in the? ummm, US of A for example? Then straight line speed becomes important. Think of it like NASCAR compared with WRC. Horses for courses, I?d say!

...thats retarded. If Citroen knows how to make a World beating rally car, why can't they make a road going version? Or at least something to rival the new Megane RS will do.