What kind of car is the Mazda Protege?
The Protegé lineup is morphing toward sportiness with the new MP3 sedan we showed you last month, as well as with this roarty little two-box 2002 Protegé5 (for five-door, gittit?).
What’s the lateral grip on a Mazda proteg?
Lateral grip is just 0.79 g, but the exceptionally rigid chassis and the well-mannered limit handling (which becomes nicely neutral off the throttle) allow a skilled driver to wring the utmost speed out of that grip without soiled shorts.
What does Mazda stand for in the Ford family?
You’ve seen the “zoom-zoom” campaign Mazda is airing to inform us of its positioning as the sporty import brand within the Ford family of fine cars?
How big are the wheels on a Mazda 5?
The helm points the 5’s standard 16-inch wheels and V-rated Dunlop SP Sport rubber with Germanic accuracy. A strut-tower brace helps keep that response linear when operating in 10/10ths Lingenfelter-pursuit mode.
The Protegé lineup is morphing toward sportiness with the new MP3 sedan we showed you last month, as well as with this roarty little two-box 2002 Protegé5 (for five-door, gittit?).
Lateral grip is just 0.79 g, but the exceptionally rigid chassis and the well-mannered limit handling (which becomes nicely neutral off the throttle) allow a skilled driver to wring the utmost speed out of that grip without soiled shorts.
You’ve seen the “zoom-zoom” campaign Mazda is airing to inform us of its positioning as the sporty import brand within the Ford family of fine cars?
The helm points the 5’s standard 16-inch wheels and V-rated Dunlop SP Sport rubber with Germanic accuracy. A strut-tower brace helps keep that response linear when operating in 10/10ths Lingenfelter-pursuit mode.
What kind of car is the Mazda Miata?
It rings a little hollow now, with the MX-5 Miata standing as the only convincing sports car, but each of the company’s new offerings will step in that direction, and maybe by the time the snot-nosed kid in the TV spots is terrorizing driver’s-ed teachers, “zoom-zoom” will fit.
What was the setting for the Mazda proteg?
The setting was last month’s Supertuner Challenge. The mini-Mazda was on hand as an errand boy and was being used as a shuttle en route to the next driver change during the road drive. But as we took off, we noticed there was no map in the Protegé5 — so we had to keep up with the car ahead.
What kind of engine does a Mazda Protege 5 have?
The new-for-2001 ULEV 2.0-liter engine, standard on Protegé5 wagon and ES sedan models, is a stroked version of the previous 1.8 and adds 8 horsepower and 15 pound-feet to the Protegé ES’s comparo-winning formula (C/D, June 2000), for a total of 130 horsepower and 135 pound-feet.
It rings a little hollow now, with the MX-5 Miata standing as the only convincing sports car, but each of the company’s new offerings will step in that direction, and maybe by the time the snot-nosed kid in the TV spots is terrorizing driver’s-ed teachers, “zoom-zoom” will fit.