Oct 11, 2010

Each year, Car and Driver Magazine awards their 10Best list of vehicles on the market.  Of course they need to drive everything that is new on the market as well as the previous year’s 10Best cars.  The following is an entry from their drivers blog on this year’s test… We’re spending the week driving 60-plus new cars in order to decide our 2011...

Sep 24, 2010

The Honda Civic vs. the Mazda 3 When the content line crosses over the price line you get better value, and as long as the extra options are worth having and the price is still within the budget you win. We think we have a winner and both apply. Every manufacturer has an inexpensive entry-level vehicle, but its not the car you really want. So we took the...

Aug 17, 2010

We usually get our comparison tests from the traditional auto enthusiast magazines.  You have seen these for every car out there: 0-60 times, skid-pad tests, understeer and oversteer, and power to weight comparo. At the end of the article the editors rank the cars and declare a winner. Now, the guys at Popular Mechanics take on the mid-size sedan comparison...

Jul 13, 2010

Fellow bloggers from the Winding Road pit the 2010 Mazda RX-8 R3 against the best sports cars in the world.  How about a case for the RX-8 in every example!  Great reading after the jump. Throw Down: Mazda RX-8 R3 Stands All By Seyth Miersma, Tom Martin July 12, 2010   We were recently lucky enough to have Mazda’s RX-8 R3 in the Winding Road office...

We have been saying this, well for a very long time.  Instead of just shopping the most popular models from Toyota and Honda, look deeper.  Look for the best combination of equipment, driving experience, and value for the money. Now Edmunds.com has published a list… The editors at Edmunds.com have published their first list of “Top 10 Best...

Automotive News, the auto industry trade journal reports that Mazda has quietly risen to the top of the residual heap!  At Brown’s Fairfax Mazda, we wish we could say we are surprised—but over the past years we have seen a steady increase in Mazda trade-in values. The best example is when compared to a similar model year and trim Honda Civic, the...