- 2002 MAZDA PROTEGE CAR STOPPED WILD DRIVING LICENSE
- 2002 MAZDA PROTEGE CAR STOPPED WILD DRIVING PLUS
Visibility from inside is also very good. Everything falls into place for the driver, with good foot room including a nice dead pedal. The Protege5 may be small but it doesn’t feel cramped in front. The tidy three gauges have off-white backgrounds and black numbers with amber illumination. The simple, small three-spoke tilt steering wheel looks and feels especially neat. There are touches of aluminum, like burnished pewter, all over, including the armrests, door handles, and the vertical control panel, where the AM/FM/CD and climate (HVAC) systems are located. Both front seats are tweaked in lumbar and lateral support, and the driver’s seatback structure uses something called “Pluma-flex” board, which Mazda says is stiffer at the bottom and more flexible at the top, resulting in a “gentler and more accommodating fit,” and transmitting less vibration. Three times, in our tape-recorded notes, we mentioned how comfortable the driver’s seat was. It’s very neatly done, distinctive and sporty in dark charcoal leather dash and doors, with cloth seats. A red suspension brace between the wheel strut towers, to firm up the handling, signals the car’s capability. Under the hood, which sounds very solid when dropped, the 2.0-liter four is mounted neatly in the transverse position. Mazda claims its “Triple-H” frame structure forms a rigid barrier to injury from side impact. Integrated within the chassis, which was redesigned in ’99, are front and rear crush zones. More black mesh in the mouthy airdam below the bumper, with a foglight on each side. Sleek headlights (straight off the “prosaic” Protege), a moonroof, black diamond mesh grille that hints at a smile. The center brake light (CHMSL) has 24 small bulbs that definitely catch your attention. There’s a standard black roofrack, and the black radio antenna is raked back from the rear center of the car. The spoiler fits like an eyelid over the slanted rear hatch. In profile it looks like a short Subaru Legacy GT wagon, but it’s prettier at each end. Great-looking 5-spoke, 16-inch alloy wheels, either brushed or polished like chrome. Trim cladding, just side sills and air dams. Separate options are: moonroof ($700) ABS and side airbags ($800) four-speed automatic transmission ($800) polished alloy (chrome-look) wheels ($500) security alarm ($220) cassette player ($150) in-dash six-disc CD changer ($500) floormats ($80) cargo net ($35) wheel locks ($30) and moonroof deflector ($40).
2002 MAZDA PROTEGE CAR STOPPED WILD DRIVING PLUS
The Vivid Yellow in the commercial is the call.īase price is $16,335 plus $480 freight. The main thing is, it comes in five colors. So sometimes this exciting car finds itself being called a “five-door vehicle” by its maker. Mazda is trying to not call the Protege5 a wagon without defying reality, which takes a bit of marketing and semantic tightrope-walking.
2002 MAZDA PROTEGE CAR STOPPED WILD DRIVING LICENSE
With a little literary license (or a lot), the Protege5 might be described as a cross between the Miata and the Tribute mini-SUV. Protege5 uses the same 130-horsepower, 2.0-liter, dohc inline four-cylinder engine as the Protege sedan. Protege5 is a sport wagon built on the solid platform of the tight, handsome, arguably prosaic, arguably under-appreciated Protege compact sedan (see separate Protege review). But Mazda has been building fetching cars for some time now-RX-7, Millenia and Miata to name three-but can’t seem to get recognized for it. Mazda is trying to create a fetching new feeling, by building more cars like this and letting people know it. In the latest of the popular zoom-zoom commercials, the Protege5 is the fetching yellow car dazzling the fetching little boy.
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