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Is this the new Mazda 3?

Video hints at new design direction, more dynamic look for hatch

Is this the new Mazda 3?

By Bob Murray

17th September 2010

THE Mazda 3 is only a year old, but already the firm is showing us what the next version of its VW Golf and Ford Focus rival could look like.

Compared to today’s happy-faced model, the new car is more dynamic. The body is heavily sculpted, with arching sills and the sharp creases of the firm’s new Kodo design direction.

The computer graphics were part of a video released by the Mazda Design Centre in Frankfurt and show a sportier car with a ‘ready-to-pounce look’ that is a hallmark of the Kodo theme. The video shows the car in a range of colours and body treatments. Mazda says it doesn’t pre-empt a concept, but with all the firm’s new models set to adopt the Kodo look, it will be in the running when the next 3 arrives in 2013.

First to benefit from the look will be the new 6, due in 2012. It takes its cues from the Shinari concept, expected to debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. Mazda has dropped its Nagare design theme, with only the new 5 MPV using the signature flowing lines.

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1 Comment

Only a year Old?

I dont thinks so, it had a facelift last year but I believe the 3 has been around slightly longer than the mk2 Focus with which it shares a chassis and engines, seeing as the Focus is being replaced its logical the 3 is as well.

By Shaun34 on 23 September, 2010, 5:53pm

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