Agreed. Love my RS3 on track. Set some brutal lap times with them!

Love Mazdas, have owned a bunch. This is a NP by me.

Yes.

Can I put plates on the back and drive it to the track? If so, sign me up. Buy a cheap set of street wheels/tires for the back and forth and swap on the stickies for all the track days, bro.

This is a very elegant form of trolling. A round of applause is deserved.

Came here to post this. The old Mazda3 and Mazdaspeed3 2.3L motors used unequal length manifolds. Here’s a clip of my old 2.3L Mazda3 w/ a ‘Speed3 catback. sounded great.

I was just watching this video yesterday! What a great sounding little four banger.

In a recent Facebook discussion, a fellow managed to find/construct a map of all of the closed/abandoned race tracks in Southern/Central California. It was incredible and incredibly sad. It looked like there were over 100 race tracks spread across the area throughout the course of time.

A Japanese manufacturer, with a reputation for engineering advancements and reliability sold the very car you’re describing for nearly 10 years, and had to stop due to people ceasing to buy them. Fortunately for you, Craigslist exists. I’ll impart two words upon you, Young Jalop: Honda S2000.

Reminds me of my old Mazda3!

Nah, front end of the 360 was always ugly and looked like a pontoon boat. At least this aftermarket piece is aggressive.

I can’t give this enough stars. Even in open passing/lapping events, I still try to give a point by every time. “Pass on the right, and please don’t hit my car!”

Completely agree with this order.

Don’t you mean the day Hell Friezas over. Hahaha, okay, I’ll see myself out now.

My roommate’s ‘15 has the same issue. IIRC, I think it’s mainly the passenger front window? Still works fine, just slow. He loves the car though, and overall, it’s been great to him.

Living in the Midwest (or the East Coast, for that matter), rust is inevitable. By 2010, my 2008 Mazda3 had rusted all over the entire rear subframe and rear suspension. I repaired rusty quarter panels when a bad paint chip caused the whole thing to start rusting. Repainted most of the suspension components due to…

Corner too hard, hit a pothole, etc. and you can very easily blow the tire off the bead of the rim. A bit of stretch never hurt anyone, but putting 195s on a 9”+ rim certainly can. I personally know people with “stanced” cars that have dealt with massive blowouts and cracked wheels. When your car is that low and you…

what makes it an Internet School if it’s brick and mortar?

To be fair, the Spaniards really know their pork.

Smooth lap, seems like the car could go with tighter gearing as it looks like it falls out of the torque band on some of the corner exits.