Share my first FC of Mazda 3 Skyactiv after 10 days run.

11.23km/L show in FuelLog (android apps)
8.9L/100km show in Fuel economy meter
Shell V-power 97

both same after convert , the fuel economy meter statistics shown quite accurate.

100% city drive with 40 minutes I-stop.

Going to 1k service after next pump , hopefully will gain better FC after that

Hi mazda folks,

I'm contemplating getting the new mazda 3 sometime end of this year. Can anyone comment:
1)Ride comfort - Is it hard and harsh on the 18inch rims ?

2)Is the car noisy i.e. outside road noise can be heard inside the cabin while driving at high speed?

3) What is the 0-100km/h performance in seconds, performance ?

4) Does the i-stop restarts the engine smoothly without jerk and pause, the moment you take off from a standstill?

Thanks.

1) Tyre is using Sport Maxx TT (Dunlop), so you can guess, same as all other High Performance Tyre, it is NOT meant for comfort Sedan driving . It give you the enhance road feedback and driving precision, good cornering.....good grip on both dry and wet

2) Tyre noise definitely is there

3) 0-100km/h, around 8s

4) direct fuel injection to restart, slight jerk is expected

1) it's rather bumpy compared to most car mostly because of the rims, but honestly, the driving, low and comfortable cockpit design kinda cancel the bumpy ride feeling out if u really enjoy driving.

2) Yeap, the noise is pretty bad when h go above 90km/h. Thisproblem can be solved quite easily, get some car soundproofiNg workshop to install some soft material around the Tyre arch, underbOdyssey or even inside the engine compartment. I believe it would cost u about 500 for a really pro ones.

3) Hmmm.. the rim seems to be giving alil problem here as well.. the large size makes pick up alil more heavy to get by. I'm driving my partner's previous Gen facelifted 1.8 altis, with it's cvt + dual vvti, throttle respond are significantly better than my m3..

4) after driving around for sometime, u kinda get to used to the right way of letting ur brakes go to reduce the slight jerk when restarting ur engine, almost to none. But Yea, at first it could be annoying, especially when you're on a terrible jam, I normally switch it off manually on jams.. useful on traffic lights thou.. I get the "wth" face from motor riders sometimes when my engine restarts next to them.

Still hasn't got my car back.. kinda miss him ffs..

This post has been edited by freyaNorth: Apr 3 2014, 02:03 PM

Nooo.. my beloved got cratch just now as I was parking..

I think wanna install the front sensor already.

Thank you guys for the valuable opinions. It gives me an insight of the car now. Will go for a test drive and decide.

End of the year will be ckd already.

new to this forum..

how will the ckd specs line out?

any info on spec n expected price for ckd?

Looks like many people is waiting CKD

If spec is better than CBU ....

Mine oledi kena stone chip on front bumper......: (

R u the 1 with white m3 that posted in m3c? I found that the front is huge , really have to pay extra attention when turning into those sempit parking lot.

This post has been edited by Tr1Angel: Apr 3 2014, 03:50 PM

sobs sobs...only driven my m3 for few days...i am on business trip....miss my m3......

got reply from getto

For front full paint protective film wrap package ( Hood, front bumper, 2pcs front fenders, headlamps and foglamps) price as below:

Oraguard 270G (Germany) : RM1600
Mactac cp150 : RM2500

The MACTAC brand from Belgium made of PU material white Oraguard was PVC, thus, Mactac will shine like paintjob do and Oraguard will have abit matte finishing.

This post has been edited by calapia: Apr 3 2014, 05:56 PM

expensive....

i use to do my own wrapping, cost itself is much lesser but it takes time & experience to wrap it (guess thts y its expensive)

I second that, scratched the front underside of my new M3 on the second day because I underestimated how close I was to the parking kerb

1. The ride is on the harsh side, no two ways about it. Mind you it's definitely not unbearable and you do get used to it, but I'm certain it's the most harsh in its class. In terms of the way the car feels, the chassis is really stiff and taut - this makes it handle really well IMHO.

2. Quite a lot of tyre noise, but as almost everyone else here has pointed out I think the stock tyres are extra noisy and a major contributor to this issue. The general soundproofing could be better as well, but I guess Mazda compromised on that in order to lighten the car. Noise hasn't been the biggest issue for me, especially once you have the radio switched on and people in the car etc

3. I haven't tried this myself, but the official line from Mazda is 8.2 secs I believe?

4. It's a very smooth restart, I daresay smoother than the BMW restart (my only previous experience with stop/start engines). After a while you also get used to the braking pressure (if you don't brake hard enough, the iStop usually doesn't kick in), so you can actually control the iStop pretty easily - I find this is really useful in traffic when I don't really want the car stopping/starting all the time.

Hope you find this useful.

1) very subjective, i find it better than my old city which has 16" rims
2) yes its loud, but i don't usually notice as my music is loud too
3) i personally tested 9.9s (i am not professional), not very str8 road, as i have to focus on driving, looking at speedometer and monitoring stopwatch + i dint use peddle shift to force it up, just press all the way, i cant multi-task too well
4) bearable, i off during traffic jams, it can be annoying when u are entering paid carpark and press full brake and engine offs, especially when there is bump there

Thank you anandkrishnan. I have the general idea now. It's impressive the car can do 8.2 seconds which is typically in the league of turbocharged cars (and beating the peugeot 408 turbo) and higher capacity NA engines. Probably changing to soft compound tyres i.e Michelin Energy XM2 etc should also help reduce the road noise. Maybe when someone here changes the tires, they can post a feedback. I'll just have to decide now if I can accept the relatively harsh and a little noisy ride and if it's within my threshold, more so, when paying a slight premium for this C-segment. Will go for a test drive and decide. Overall, I'm actually impressed after reading the reviews, safe for these 2 concerns mentioned. On a separate issue, what is the safe colour to choose? I heard the soul red was engineered by mazda for their cars. It's inevitable in KL driving, everyone will experience some untoward incidents. Do normal workshops have the soul red colour in case the need arises to respray or touch up the bumper?

to answer your color question, soul red only made available for CBU unit~, repaint for soul red is also more expensive as its a patented color
Ea panel respray,other colors RM400, soul red RM600
i don't tink its available outside in other workshop currently
(all was told by SA)

and soul red looks awesome~

Yes, soul red is more expensive

The SA also revealed that his boss (the dealer) need to pay more to bring in soul red car, and selling at same price (less revenue margin)

so I purposely choose soul red and see whether the dealer give the same service or not

with more & more M6 soul red on the road....I believe later this color will become available in non-panel paint workshop....