As a replacement for the Demio, the compact five-door five-seater Mazda 2 came on the market in 2002 and had been proven quite a success since its first appearance – especially the European market has accepted the tiny Japanese from the very first moment. The car is now due for replacement, and our spy-shots show it’s going to have an even more European design when it hits our shores in summer 2007.

The newcomer is again based on the Ford Fiesta and again engines will be mounted transversely driving the front wheels. Our pictures show an early prototype during a test-drive in Germany. The pictured prototype still has some black tape concealing the major styling changes at front- and rear end.

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A mount of owners of Mazda3 if has become victims of a known method already of the Brazilians. When they come back toward its cars the door is opened and all itens of had been inside taken. Nothing of blown up locks or broken glasses.

In accordance with Mazda concessionaires whom they had preferred to be anonymous, the person has that to give to a collision in the place certinho of the door, kneading it a little. Then the passed kneaded one of the frame of the door, and arrives at the mechanism of the constraint, that active the computer, and it thinks that the door was unlocked correctly by the key or the remote control.

This problem reaches all the Mazda3. The Mazda says that it knows of the subject already for 4 months, and that it is working in a way to decide it. Victims had said that the Mazda fixes the constraint mechanism, but do not unknead the door, because he was one third that she caused the problem.