With the Mazda2 and Mazda6 selling successfully abroad, the Zoom-Zoom crowd is turning its attention to the Mazda3, with this rendering surfacing in good company of the wealth of RX-9 sketches that were popping up everywhere last month. The rendering borrows cues from its little and big brothers to forecast what the upcoming 3 could look like, while ostensibly reasonable predictions place four-cylinder engines underhood ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 liters, as well as the availability of four- and five-door variants like the current and previous models.
The current Mazda3, although facelifted just a couple of years ago, has been on the market for five years now, making it a prime candidate for a total redesign. Reports suggest that the new 3 could bow in Paris this September ahead of a spring 2009 market launch, so we'll keep an eye out for it when we land in the City of Lights.

I hate that grill they keep putting on the 6 and 3...

Looks cool, I saw the Hatch variant in a mag recently, looks good also.

I do not like that at all.....

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I hate that grill they keep putting on the 6 and 3...[/b]

That's why body kits were invented....Duh!!!

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I do not like that at all.....[/b]

Agreed. Kinda in the direction Subaru went. UGLY!!!

Looks like I will be getting my 3 before this body style comes out.. I keep looking at this and I just can't even see one thing that i DO like about it.. Oh well, I guess I will be getting a good deal on an old 3 then.

the pic makes it look kinda bubbly....like a penny racer.... would have to see the real thing...as for the grill, simply cosmetic here...now the new camry....grill requires a whole new front bumper....what a pain...good thing I like hondas....

haha omg Penny racers!

josh...I could swear you have ADD.... look bats! oooh candy! penny racer!!!

what are you talking about...







Besides that Mazda 3 does look like a penny racer..

well yes...which is why i said that...thanks for the bat/candy pics tho..

thats just an artist depiction of what it could look like. not offical yet.

I'm still loving my '06 style...don't care for this one too much. Why are they putting the RX-8 fenders on all the sedans???

Ridiculous lemme tell ya...

Damn that thing is ugly. Looks too cartoonish. Like a Yaris.

looks like crap