Mazda 323 (1994-1998)

This model was an absolute beauty of a car that was simply stunning to look at and a great pleasure to drive. Mazda had the shape perfect – it was so wonderfully sexy! And what did they do? They went and changed it to a completely bland looking shape that nearly every modern car looks like. Oh well, I guess there’s no understanding these marketing types. Still, back on to this superb model. My wife had one of these for 2 years as her company car. It was the top of the range model, the ZXi. This is has a 2 litre, 24 valve V6 engine. It had all the extras that you would expect, air conditioning, twin airbags, power steering, ABS, a CD player and radio, ...