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The Globe and Mail Brendan McAleer Published December 16, 2020
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Parked next to its great-grandfather, a 1988 Mazda 323 GTX, the 2021 Mazda3 hatchback looks every inch the highly polished machine that it is. Underneath, however, the vehicles share similar components: all-wheel drive, a spacious cargo area and a turbocharged engine.
No, the new Mazda3 Turbo isnʼt the rally hooligan that the limited production GTX was, but this version with its tailgate is a compelling new entrant in one of the most satisfying automotive segments out there: sporty compact hatchbacks. The term “hot hatch” (or warm hatch, depending on how spicy the performance is), first cropped up in Britain in the mid-1980s to describe cars such as the GTX and, retroactively, the Volkswagen GTI.