Join John and Richard as they dive into the intricacies of the 2025 Mazda 3 Hatchback. This episode uncovers the features that make this little hatchback a powerhouse on the road, from its turbocharged engine to the all-wheel-drive option. If you’re in the market for a vehicle that combines functionality with affordability, you won’t want to miss this insightful review.
And we are back that time where we do car reviews each week. Richard, what have you driven lately?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, so we’ll start out, Dad, with the 2025 Mazda 3. This is the hatchback version that we drove. And we had the 2.5 turbo premium plus mouthful. Folks, this is one of the most fun, I guess I’m going to call it little hatchbacks. around town or just not around town everywhere and it was really fun to drive around town with the turbocharged engine worked really really well the hatchback obviously that in my opinion is going to give you a little bit more cargo space and obviously it looks a little bit different too right it doesn’t have the sedan look it looks a little bit kind of more right SUV-ish in a way. But on the Mazda 3, Dad, you’ve got available all-wheel drive, which is great. You’ve got some onboard over-the-air updates that you can get. It’s also got Alexa built in if you want to go that route if you’re kind of in that side of things. But the biggest thing, Dad, is just in terms of the affordability-ness, I’ll say. You can get this vehicle starting in the low 26s, 26, 135. Sorry, low 26 is a bad way of saying it. The mid-20s, right?
SPEAKER 1 :
26, 135.
SPEAKER 02 :
You can get the one that we had for under 40, which is a little bit more on the luxury side. Had heated steering wheel, heated seats, those sorts of things. Dual zone climate control, the touchscreen navigation system, that sort of deal. But a really wide breadth of options that are available. The only complaint that I had with two kids in the backseat, not even in full-on… You know, five-point harness seats, whatever it is. We just got normal booster seats. It’s a little tight in the second row. Not a major concern. Just something that I want to note. And for folks, though, that are in the market, Dad, for sort of a hatchback or even, again, a sedan, urban environment, that sort of thing, I would highly encourage folks to check these vehicles out, Dad. The Mazda 3 has been around for a while now. And, again, it was updated. Let me see here. back in 2019. So it’s still kind of part of the fourth generation. Encourage folks to head to their local Mazda dealer, test drive it, and when they do, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 01 :
This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at rushtoreason.com or drive-radio.com.
