Refreshed Mazda3 Hatchback offers balance of sportiness, luxury

What it is: There are plenty of reasons to still buy a car and not a crossover, and the Mazda3 Hatchback is right at the tip of the spear. Mazda sells an almost identical vehicle in crossover form, the CX-30, and while the CX-30 is fine, it is basically a poser-mobile with the gruff-looking plastic cladding on the fenders to help protect the paint from the off-roading that you are only going to do in your dreams. The best thing about Mazda vehicles is how sporty they are behind the wheel (remember the Zoom-Zoom slogan?) and you are only making the Mazda3 worse by ratcheting it up a few inches off of the ground.

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