 What a fun little car?  Great Styling.  Turbo lets me squirt through traffic with ease.  Great utility.  Comfortable on long trips.  Haul around stuff when you need to by folding rear seat.  Spent two weeks on the road out west camping with this car with mountain bikes on the roof.  Still plenty of power and extremely supportive seats.  Mazda 3 owner stopped me in the badlands.  She was from chicago.  she asked me how I liked the v-dub.  I told her it's the most awesome car.  She said her car was killing her.  She was turning it in as soon as she got back to chicago.  Go for the leather, 17's and monsoon, you won't be dissappointed unless you're not really looking for hot hatch.