Any reason I shouldn't buy a Mazdaspeed3?

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Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
If you floor it, it is going to tapper the throttle so you do not get torque steer, and in toher situations it is only if the steering angle is great than 3 degrees IIRC. Either way most reviews have said the system works great.

I have driven the MS3, and as ayabe mentioned, you can feel it. Like him, I found it annoying.


For the record, Mazda does NOT have questionable reliability with turbocharging this type of engine (this isn't a rotary). There were some det issues with the MS6, but those have been mostly fixed. And the fit-and-finish is more than adequate in this class.
As good a car as the Mazda3 is, I think a lot of the complaints that you hear about it stem from the fact that a lot of enthusiasts were hoping that the MS3 would be like the second coming of the autox legend 323 GTX, and it's not.