I wish I had a positive experience like that. I ripped my dealership, Ford contacted me with a followup survey to make sure they understood the problem. Ford then contacted me 6 weeks later to see if the dealership had reached out to me to correct the issue. They had not.

That’s too bad. We bought a Sonic last year and I actually like it a lot better then the Mazda3 Hatchback it replaced.

Sport seats out of a BMW E39. They will hold you firmly in place and yet I have pushed my car’s 500 mile/tank range and still felt fresh when I got out of the car.

Sorry. Still laughing about the mandatory meeting at 3:30 taking away from teaching the great young minds of America. The teachers at my kid’s school will run you over if you get between them and the parking lot as soon as the ending bell rings. Their union is so in favor of helping the young minds of America that…

I must be driving the wrong type of vehicle. In the last 2 years I have replaced the cooling system on a BMW e39 as well as the upper and lower control arms. In both cases I ended up going to Ebay but all the parts listed on Ebay were the brand name parts. There were no cheaper knock-offs available. I certainly wish…

Curses. Now I have to send a “Thank You” note to Nissan for selling me an extra special Non-Carjackable key fob. My stupid fob fails to “pair” with the car about every third time.

His jump shot looks more like a two handed bounce pass at the rim.

Why is it so ugly? Is it cheaper to design and build an ugly car?

Next year - Cobb Tuning shift kit!

My mistake. I assumed that you had gotten a full-on Honda mower with the composite deck and everything.

I ended up finding the junction box for about $165 at the pick and pull but it took me 18 months to find it. During that time I had no horn.

Wow! Slow down! No one said anything about a fancy Honda mower. I haven’t seen a Honda mower for less then $500. This gives it a $/HP ratio of closer to $185/HP. That’s some fancy power there, young man.

Is it a 2.3l with the 5 speed stick? From my reading that seems to be the “magical” combination.

I had a ‘14 as a rental car and it was a Rolls Royce compared to the tin can ‘04.

Not even Ford reliability. Ford used that 2.3l in everything and had decent succes with it. The Mazda was just a turd.

Actually, that was the most disheartening part of the whole ordeal. Ford has put that exact same 2.3l in millions of vehicles so why is it failing at such an astronomical rate in this particular application?

2004. Both the 2004 and the 2005 had issues with the 2.3l engine as well as the aforementioned junction box issues. They both also had the weakest A/C units fitted to a vehicle in the last 20 years. 

Buy a Mazda3 hatchback they said. It is the best handling FWD drive car they said. Japanese reliability they said.

As much as I love this new “Law and Order - Car Dealership” series I am positively giddy for the required spinoff; “Law and Order - Insurance Salesperson”.

Sorry. Can’t. The oil is most likely cross contaminated with gluten.