Let me know how it is. I am going Sunday. Do they have the sedan. I mostly interested in that. Could u sit in the hatch?
I thought the same thing while I was at the Portland auto show. The Mazda 2 doesn't look bad, but it doesn't do anything to stand out from the sea of Versas, Accents, and Aveos. Seeing it in person it plainly looks like a cheaper, less exciting car than the Fiesta.What was Mazda thinking when they designed the 2. It will be interesting to see sales figures between the 2 and the Fiesta.
What were you thinking when you said that? The 2 is a perfectly good little car, it just got one-upped by Ford. In fact I remember a lot of European reviews saying the 2 was the best car in its class before the Fiesta came around. Plus the 2 at that show looks more like a low- or mid-level model, while the Fiesta is a top-line SES.What was Mazda thinking when they designed the 2. It will be interesting to see sales figures between the 2 and the Fiesta.
I have no idea where the sales figures for other countries are, but here are the Dutch sales figures for the Fiesta and the Mazda 121 / Mazda 2:What was Mazda thinking when they designed the 2. It will be interesting to see sales figures between the 2 and the Fiesta.
Year Fiesta 121
1989 7663 1115
1990 7550 655
1991 8038 3614
1992 6994 2117
1993 6203 1565
1994 7076 1335
1995 6222 681
Year Fiesta 121
1996 13565 3012
1997 5583 2063
1998 6111 1278
1999 5484 578
2000 5589 357
2001 7262 41
2002 10547 5
Year Fiesta 2
2003 7822 1814
2004 6304 2569
2005 6880 1709
2006 6126 1273
2007 5005 1190
2008 4535 2140
Year Fiesta 2
2009 10995 1083
Yup, it was at Washington, but not Detroit. At Washington it was sitting away from the main VW display in the "Green Car" zone. When I got there it was completely unattended. But a friend who went there the next day said an Irish VW rep was letting people into the car.the actual EU Polo has been at a few recent MAJOR auto shows
Yeah, there seem to be orange Mazda2s circulating this week in addition to the green ones we have seen. I wonder if the orange ones aren't as spec'd out as the green ones. They have to cover 8 auto shows this weekend so maybe this was a makeshift solution.FiestaFan said:I just noticed something; the 2 at the St. Louis show (and the one at the Houston Show I went to yesterday, which was identical) appears to be a Euro-spec Mazda2.