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Slotege Reviewed — Great acceleration, braking is okay, handling is amazing. Build quality is pretty good except the weak spots in the body where it tends to rust. Fortunately this protege has had very little rust poke out. I personally like the look of my compact 4-door family car and all the mods compliment it a lot. Gas mileage with the v6 motor that is in it now is around 30mpg highway and 24mpg city. Regular maintenance and doing the work myself saves on cost. The car is just an overall blast to drive anytime and anywhere.

Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)

Clark Kent Bought A Kryptonite —

The 2000 Mazda Protege' tan was about as boring a car can get. I bought it brand new with 5 speed manual transmission. My personality and lifestyle at the time was very conservative and it was probably why I gravitated to this conservative sedan. Probably the only daring thing I did in choosing it was opt for the tan interior. I would say like me my choice of car in this point of my life was severely lacking in personality. I used it purely for commute to work and on weekends slapped a bike rack on the back and rode my mountain bike more. I was enmeshed in the daily grind just like everyone else. All trips were only around Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Germantown, MD. I did not venture much out. I was a homebody and a nobody, kinda like the Protege. All was fine in surburbia. Then tragedy struck me and it centered around the Protege. Nobody got hurt but me. Eventually I moved away from Montgomery County. Also, I must mention in my opinion the Protege was not built to last. Little things started falling apart on the vehicle like rod bar on the wheel/axle and things under the hood started to prematurely corrode and wear out. I even took it to a prominent Mazda dealership for an oil change and they forgot to replace the cap and oil got on everything under the hood.As opposed to past vehicles, the Protege was not fun to drive and manual transmission in the thicket of I270 traffic made it a chore. This vehicle also for some reason made me sad so I sold the pity for a pittance.

Primary Use: Commuting to work

Great Car Worth Every Penny — comfortable car good like even better when modified , mine was manual and it was doing the job , after 11 years still as good , easily sold (in my country don't know about you). repair costs were not the cheapest in the word but still cheap. the car's acceleration is good if you keep looking after it braking and handling are brilliant easily controllable , safety is good never had big accident to be certain.

Primary Use: Commuting to work

Good First Used Car For New Driver — Great first car, has a nice kick to acceleration. Decent look to the car and only needed a couple repairs in the 2 years I had it. Not a bad car to drive. Hoping for the gas mileage to be a little better, but I live in the woods so there isn't much highway driving.

Primary Use: Commuting to work

Highly Recommend This Vehicle!!!!! — This car is bloody amazing. Like really. I bought it for $1200, with 4 snows on steels. When i bought it, it had 299,987 kms, and that was in august 2010. Now, january 2011, its got 312,848 and still runnin like a champ. Its my first standard and i pretty much learned how to drive it myself. A few hiccups; new plugs and wires due to a cylinder misfire, but really other than that, it needed a lightbulb over the licence plate to pass ontario saftey regulations.

Primary Use: Commuting to work

My Mazda! — My Mazda handles greatly and the brakes aren't sensative like the 1993 Geo Prizm my family has.The only problem my Mazda has is the engine problem, we haven't been able to fix it since we bought it last year.The overall appearance looks almost perfect on the exterior except for a few poor dabs of paint job here and there, but that ain't noticable; there's also scratched paint on the front driver side bumper. The interior is nice and cozy, nuff said.Cutest car I've ever driven but I'm biased on that because I own it and I know that owners of their first cars (If those cars are nice enough) will say that their car's cuter than anyone else's.

Primary Use: Family transportation

Okay — It is a good but small car. Reliable, but a very bumpy ride. The little horn goes MEEP-MEEP at the top of it's lungs! It's a nice car, but it's not a really good family car. Small interior, only 4 people can sit. But large trunk.

Primary Use: Commuting to work

Zoom Zoom — Two words.....zoom zoom... 10 years and still running great. I love it as much now as I did the day I drove it off the lot. Just wear and tear now, nothing major. Almost 200k on it. I drive it like it's a race car...Getting another mazda for sure!

Primary Use: Commuting to work

Mazda Protege — 5 Speed gearbox needs a better 5th gear for highway driving. 3800rpm in 5th gear doing 120kph seems high. Quality has been great, all around, and very low maintenance. A few more bells and whistles would be nice, and there isnt much of an upgrade or tuner market, but its a grocery-getter.

Primary Use: Commuting to work

N/a — faster than average 4 doors, ram intake, exhaust, new transmission, new clutch, new flywheel. HID kit. strobs, neon, leds, accents. fog lights...25 mpg, 5 speed manual. pioneer/ infinity/ audiobahn audio system installed. tweeters, subs, amp, head unit. pioneer premier. yeah.

Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)