You can buy a Mazda 3 loaded for $35k. Now that is shocking.
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CASH PURCHASE OPTIONS
MSRP$34,000.00
Trade-in§$0.00
Current Incentive +
-$500.00
Options$2,150.00
Accessories$0.00
Freight & PDI$1,750.00
Air Conditioning Tax‡$100.00
OMVIC Fee♦$10.00
Tire Stewardship Fee★$20.00
Oil Filter Fee$1.00
Sub-total$37,531.00
PLUS TAXES (Ontario) $4,879.03
Grand Total of $42,410.03
Isn’t that the Turbo?
Yes. Turbo, AWD, premium colour, and the one option package. That would be loaded because you can't go any higher.
Wow. It is a nice car but….
If the $ 2k options were not included, its only slightly more than the cost of my GLi in 2019. I haven't driven a top of the line turbo 3, but based on specs, reviews etc., and hoping (?) it had much better than normal compact car sound insulation and muted road noise like my GLi, I would consider it a competitor and reasonably priced. Different benefits and features, pretty much a wash between the 3 and GLi, for example the 3 has AWD (I don't care), I have a mechanical LSD (great everywhere including snow) and adjustable everything including suspension (Dynamic Chassis Control).
Both are in a much different class than the Civic, IMO.
I hate all the fees and taxes, then seeing the "big number" !