Just a warning for my Japanese friends if yiu decide to buy this car. The car has a premium interior for its class. Great tech equipments and great styling for the hatch version. Nice steering and the car handling is fantastic. Now the negative part of car! Lack of low end power. The 2.0L is the worst offender! Automatic gear box is woeful and slow to shift gears so you will find a big gap hence neither the engine is smooth nor fast. Mabe the manual gearbox is better but don't expect this car can beat any Hyundai i30 N-line or Kia Cerarto Sport! The hatch has very poor rear vision due to big pillars and that doesn't help with small rear windows and small design side mirrors. Don't worry about blind spot sensor becuae yiu only have 1 sec to check the mirror and you won't care flashin light warning nor alert sound. You ll get tired driving the hatch with with hard suspension, tiny rear vision, lack of power at idle acceleration and fuel consumption is high since you constantly need to rev up the engine. I would recommend Honda Civic, Suzuki Swift sport or Hyundai i30 N-line. More funs to drive than the Mazda 3