Both the Mazda 3 and 6 MPS cars make use of a 2.3-liter turbocharged inline-four. On demand is 263 horsepower, which is sent to the 3's front wheels, but dispersed to all four wheels in the 6 sedan.

Price: approximately £19,500 On sale February Engine: 2,261cc, four cylinders, 16 valves, turbocharger, 260bhp at 5,500rpm, 280lb ft at 3,000rpm Transmission: six ...

Mazda hasn’t released any technical details on the 3 MPS yet, but expect it to be powered by a revised version of Mazda’s 2.3-litre turbocharged four-pot, likely putting out a bit more than ...

Today’s Mazda 3 MPS costs £18,601 and packs a 256bhp/280lb ft punch. No figures have been issued yet for the new 2009 MPS, but we hear outputs will be broadly similar while cleaning up ...

The 3 MPS remains the only Mazda to use the engine after the CX-7 SUV was discontinued in 2012. + 4 Photos Kogai-san said he wasn’t concerned the traditional extra weight of a diesel engine ...

The Mazda 3 MPS is competitively priced, as it undercuts the Renaultsport Megane, VW Golf GTI and SEAT Leon Cupra R by about £2,000. It also comes with a long list of standard kit, including sat ...

Mazda 3: So this is the most powerful hot hatch on the market? Doesn’t look like it. Maybe not, but the Millennium Falcon didn’t look like much either and look how that ...

Mazda CX-3 Mazda MPS mazdaspeed. About the author: Mihnea Radu. Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s.

With that sort of power, the £18,995 3 MPS was good for 0-62mph in 6.1 seconds, which was faster than a Volkswagen Golf GTI in 2006 at the time of the Mazda's launch.

A replacement for the Mazda 3 MPS is in the pipeline but will be forced to wait for the company's mainstream models to be designed and engineered before it sees the light of day.

Mazda’s MPS lineup, or Mazdaspeed range for some markets, might return in showrooms in a few years. The introduction of the current line of Mazda 3 has led to the discontinuation of the last of ...