[Dan J.]

I have photos of a 5 door with Saddle brown leather I took at the dealership yesterday. I hosted them on photobucket but I haven't figured out how to post the specific images from my album yet.

Here is the info from the brochure:
Unique Carbon Gray MIca finish
Side sill extensions
Automatic on-off headlights
Rain-sensing front wipers
17 inchh alloy wheels with exclusive high gloss finish
P205/50R17 tires
LED rear combination taillights on 5-door only

Saddle Brown or Black leather interior & door panel inserts
Heated driver and front passenger seats
Air condition with pllen filter
Special high-gloss steering wheel & dash accents

222-watt Bose digital amplifier with 5 channels of custom equalization plus 7 speakers- including 2 door mounted tweeters and a powered subwoofer
In-dash 6-disc CD changer
Sirius Satellitte Radio-compatible autio system

Modified by RepoMan at 8:05 PM 1/28/2005


Modified by RepoMan at 2:34 PM 1/29/2005

[scorpio14]

http://www.autoweb.com.au/cms/....html

source: autoweb.com.au

ITs a darn great lookin car....and the colour of the leater tells all...IMO the interior is as good as a Lexus IS200's....

THis is the one that came to Australia

[Hornbag]

I love the Mazda 3, but why do we need this? It is selling well over expectations, i mean, yeah for me its a good car, buy why?

[Top Secret]

To make it look more 'upmarket' so to speak. Mazda really wants to make people see that this is a genuine competitor to the Golf and the A3, and what better way to do that if they add some more 'european' luxuries such as leather?

I love that interior - for some reason brown leather looks cool.

[Dan J.]

For 21,545 dollars it is a bargain. The sales manager said that this was a marketing test to see if Mazda will make this a regular option package for 06. He said that there would not be very many of them and that delevery of the rest of them had been held up because of the mudslides in Calif. That they were on the transport ship waiting to be unloaded and that all the ones on the ship were all that are going to be available.

[CalinG7]

I would not mind spending my daily commutes in that interior, especially for just a little over 21K. See, you can offer luxury touches like these without thinking you're automatically a luxury car maker **cough**VW**cough**. Hope this doesn't go to their heads and the next concept we see from Mazda is a Phaeton clone.

[Naga Royal Guard]

whoa the leather color is similar to the King Ranch, its pretty classy for a small car :)

[spwolf]

22k for automatic wipers and leather...sweet.

[Speedstick]

Auto wipers are an option on the normal one... I'm looking at getting one eventually.

[Dan J.]