Test Drive Mazda Mazda 3 MPS (Mazdaspeed 3) since 2009 Hatchback

Test Drive Charged Hatchback Mazda 3 MPS

You can love or hate Mazda, but it is impossible not to admit that in recent years this modest Japanese company has seriously advanced in sports and designer endeavors. And the Mazda 3 MPS, the heroine of today's test is perhaps one of the most prominent confirmations.
Not just like that. For example, this is the fastest Mazda for today, and even the exotic Coupe RX-8 will be lagging behind it. More Mazda3 MPS is the most common of sports Mazd. And finally, from these most sporty Mazd, she is also the newest. It is also important that the most accessible and practical.
The first generation of charged matryoshka went to the ferry sheep skins. Serious dynamics and excellent handling hid in an ordinary appearance. Recognize a wolf at first glance in this car, not everyone managed. Modern version is radical and fresher!
With the debut of the second generation treshki, a new round of the evolution of design in the style of Zoom-Zoom began. Bright Red Emesesk rings with faces and skillfully conjugated surfaces. The impression is that even standing on the spot, this hatchback plows the space and rushing forward. The wings are accented, lighting equipment is hypertrophilized, and the front part now also sulfot the mouth of the air intake (and how an unusual plastic falseradiator grille with several smiles!). The picture is crowned with spectacular spokes, which in Mazda are called three-dimensional. A big step forward in the design is obvious, and the version of the MPS as a whole looks much evil and more effectively the standard option.
The body not only looks in a new way, but also pays a number of improvements that allowed to reset 25 kg of excess weight and make the structure stronger by about 15%. High strength steel here is 17% more than before. The installation zones of the shock absorbers are reinforced, the central tunnel has become thicker. The Japanese also report on improved aerodynamics and high speed stability, as well as an additional clamping force that creates a beautiful anti-fifth door. Well, for a machine with large wheels and a developed body kit, the coefficient of aerodynamic resistance and indeed very good 0.32 cx.
Inside the top version, good-quality sports chairs are found with good side support and MPS emblem on the back. The steering wheel and the lever of the gearbox are stitched with a red thread, the backlight of the devices of the same color. Panels are trimmed with curious dark red plastic with overflow, and the seats trim in the central part of the texture and the pattern echoes these overlays. Stylish.
From the ceiling pierce the shiny rays is a point diode illumination. The devices also have blue in the design. And strips around the control unit of the audio system, like on the previous version, begin to wink when the sound volume changes. Also commemorate and indicators of separate climate control when the temperature is changed. All this slightly gives streets and the orientation of developers on a relatively young target audience.
Nevertheless, the salon matured and added as. The front panel is finished with a pleasant elastic plastic, the build quality is improved. But there are both budget solutions that do not allow forget that you are in the Mazda salon. For example, a frankly poor greenish information displacer, which in Russian cars is worth instead of colored with navigation (as in Europe). Or a cheap sound of slamming doors. Or, as before, not the best sound insulation, especially the arches.
However, the affordable price always has reasonable reasons for existence, and our Mazda is good primarily by the running qualities for which, perhaps, and take.
Briefly about improvements. The 2.3 MZR known to us with a direct injection of DISI with a turbine provided a new throttle control program and inlet system. Characteristics have not changed (260 hp and 380 nm), but the management of the burden (or rather, its increasing) has become a little smaller. Advanced tracks-control controls pressuring pressure is now more flexible, making the work of the self-locking differential smasher. If you are green, then you will also come to get ready for the fact that the motor now satisfies the norms of Euro-5, thanks to the unprecedented decorated catalytic neutralizer made with the help of nano-technologies.
But the gearbox has not changed constructively changes, except that the gear ratios are now a little stretched in order to improve the indicators of economy. The architecture of the suspension is exactly the same as on the previous model MacPherson in front, multi-dimensions from behind. Characteristics have been corrected, elements of running enhanced. Such here is an accurate donoyake.
The engine is well pulling from the bottom of the nose, allowing you to trim with proper pedaling even with idle. The moment and the thrust grow more smaller, and they have become more convenient to manage them. But only if we are talking about civil modes of movement. It is worth going to all the money as Mazda immediately turns into a non-prophetic powerful front-wheel drive, where the front wheels do not always behave like that wishes behind the wheel.
Here you still have to decide how to ride. Either with systems included or without. In both cases, you can move very quickly. But if the electronic collar is disabled, know that now you have no smart and correct assistant and all the delights of the overloaded front drive will have to be solved on their own. We understand the case, choose the option without helpers the most honest. But before that we appreciate their work. In the default ride mode, MPS smokes less on the sides and significantly unload the steering wheel from parasitic momentum. And it happens quite imperceptible. But at the same time, you feel that the car gives no maximum possibilities that the motor all the time seems to be slightly emphasized that the car does not reveal the dynamics fully. I think in the summer, on the heated rubber and hot dry asphalt, the assistance of insurers would be even more imperceptible.
The nature of the motor has not changed almost. Up to 3,000 revolutions, he simply confidently pulls, allowing enough dynamically, but at the same time and economically go to the city stream. From 3,000 to 4,000 revolutions occurs rapid increases of thrust, and then the turbine makes a powerful breath into light engine and begins, for which people love MPS. Powerful slight acceleration, jerk forward! And if on the first two transmissions, due to the problems, the possibility of the engine can not be fully disclosed, then on top gears it is simply delighted. The engine capabilities well demonstrate how the machine energetically accelerates on 6 transmission from 120 to 200 km / h.
However, so many horses and Newtones on the front wheels turn around and a few minuses. The hard suspension is not the best from the point of view of energy intensity, and if you are driving gas to the floor, you need to close the condition of the road web. The pit or pothole, on which it was possible to relatively calmly drive at a fixed speed, was ready to inform a powerful blow to the front suspension. So much that it goes to the limiter, saying a unpleasant loud blow on the body.
Moscow roads on the eve of the winter is not better quality, and if you go quickly by a key or just a slightly broken surface, again, accelerating, under the burden, you need to be ready for constant poruscia. Baranca as if alive walks from side to side. Self-block, of course, adds stability. But his work is felt when the unfolded wheel suddenly gropes the contact spot again you have to adjust the trajectory of the movement. However, I'm not going to haysellem. I perfectly remember the experience of driving on other charged hatches without it. There is a situation with the control of the burden much more running. Especially in the case when turns begin.
On Treshka-MPS Attack of any virageas turns into an attraction: Calculation of braking point, input, opening choke, blocking, hook internal wheel and confident output with good acceleration! Moreover, the moment of blocking is felt, as well as how it affects the handle. Sports? And how!
Lovers of the drift of the self-block, too, to help. I have a couple of tariated aging, which sometimes flow sideways. So, I put in one of them MPS, and it was already almost perpendicular to the trajectory of movement, deeply. I myself am put on gas, I will give it back, yes, I feel that it will turn away now. However, fortunately, I underestimated the help of self-blocking machine hovering in a dead point and pulled out to the correct trajectory, nicely catching the steering wheel at the end point.
By the way, the taxiing here is the same as the motor, it became a little bit better and more transparent, because the steering now has no two, but three points of fixation, which in the idea should have affected the definition of work.
Movement at high speed is given to this car in joy. The stability of the movement rose, there is no nervousness, even if you carry 180-200 km / h along a wet road. To slow down from such a speed is also not scary. The electronics competently distributes the effort on wheels, the ABS keeps on the straight, the sensitivity of the pedal is good, and the effectiveness of exactly the same disks and calipers, as in the previous version, is enough.
Evaluating the entire spectrum of changes that occurred with this machine can and should be said that it has changed only for the better. All strong qualities of the first version, it has retained, all the bad one or another adjusted. As for positioning in an extensive class of charged competitors, then the positions of Mazda3 MPS look very confident. The price does not bite, the appearance is up to date, the dynamics is one of the best. For fans of front-wheel drive, there is a differential that is still rare in the class. In other words, this MPS is again doomed to success, which is quite justified.
 
 
Specifications Mazda3 MPS
Engine type gasoline, 4-cylinder with turbocharged
Working volume, cm3 2 261
Power (hp at rpm) 260/5 500
Torque (nm at rpm) 380/3 000
Drive front
Gearbox Mechanical 6-speed
McPherson Front Suspension
Rear independent suspension, multi-type
Brakes front ventilated discs
Brakes rear non-ventible discs
Length (mm) 4 505
Width (mm) 1,770
Height (mm) 1 460
Wheel base (mm) 2 640
Curb Mass (kg) 1 460
Fuel consumption:
In the city (l) 13.2
On the track (L) 7.5
Combined (L) 9.6
Trunk (L) 340-1 360
Maximum speed (km / h) 250
Acceleration 0-100 km / h (sec) 6.1
Price of the Tested Car 1,274,000 rubles
 
 
 
 

A source: Drom.ru.