Article: Mazda's Answer to Troubled Times

I toured this bedroom community in the 2009 Mazda 6, the latest entry in the hotly contested market for mid-size, mid-priced family sedans.

It was an instructive drive, one that revealed much about our economically wobbly, politically and personally uncertain times.

Consider the car.

I chose the version that will constitute at least 60 percent of the 2009 Mazda 6 sedan sales in the United States -- the Mazda 6i Sport with the 2.5-liter, inline four-cylinder, 170-horsepower engine and five-speed automatic transmission. Ten to 11 percent of Mazda 6 sales will probably come from four-cylinder models with six- speed manual transmissions.

That means barely 30 percent of 2009 Mazda 6 sales would ...

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