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Article: Efficiency as easy as mpg ; Testing a new model assumes a fresh relevance when that car is also entered into a competition to ascertain its overall frugality and Iain Robertson, an acknowledged mpg champion, broke records with Mazda.
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- Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Fuel economy is a pressing issue for all motorists these days,
yet car makers continue to promote speed and performance, rather
than frugality, as being the selling propositions.
Mazda is actually one of the handful of car makers to be enjoying
continued demand in a very fraught market. So, putting together an
entry in the annual ALD Automotive/ Total Excellium/Fleet World MPG
Marathon for the company's hottest hatchback, the 260bhp Mazda3 MPS,
and hoping to prove the car's worth on the efficiency front, may
have seemed like an improbable task with an unfeasible outcome.
Accompanied by my regular navigator, freelance motoring writer,
Robert Marshall, we realised from the outset we were in ...