#Mazdaspeed3

A sleeper is a car that speaks softly and carries a big stick — in other words, a car that is fast, but doesn’t necessarily look fast.

Rumor has it that the new Mazda speed3 will debut in concept form later this year.

Ford’s RS forthcoming hot hatch will finally be sold in North America.

Ford engineers are cooking up a new ultra-high-performance Focus RS. The car is baking in the product-development oven right now and it should be set to go on sale as soon as the timer goes off in 2016.

New details on a successor to the current Mazdaspeed3 are starting to emerge.

Through social media, some stories have a life of their own. AutoGuide.com has compiled a list of this week’s most shared stories through Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

The next-generation Mazdaspeed3 could be getting all-wheel drive, since the new Mazda 3 shares its underpinnings with the CX-5 SUV.

A Mazda engineer may have spilled the beans about the brand’s replacement for its current Mazdaspeed3 hot hatch.

Mazda-mania just happened over the weekend, with a record setting 683 Miatas parading in Lelystad, Netherlands. The sight of so many Mazda enthusiasts jogged our foggy memories, and helped us to remember our own personal connections with the brand, as well as some of the greatest Mazda’s of all time.

Each week, we recap the most popular videos from AutoGuide‘s YouTube channel just in case all seven days passed you by and you missed out. This past week, fans of hot hatches are getting their fix with AutoGuide‘s video pitting the 2013 Ford Focus ST against the 2013 Mazda speed3.

Each week, we recap the most popular videos from AutoGuide‘s YouTube channel just in case all seven days passed you by and you missed out. This past week, AutoGuide had a little fun putting two hot hatches in a shootout – the Ford Focus ST and the Mazda speed3. Which one prevailed?

Ah to be young again. AutoGuide’s nationally recognized, board-certified Oracles remember their youth vividly… it was terrible. People often say age is just a number and you’re only as old as you feel, unfortunately they were born wearing elastic-waist jeans and Science Olympiad fanny packs. Gingivitis arrived when they were in middle school.

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Driving is a mundane task for some people, but for others it’s a sport, and there’s no better proving ground than a track.

Davis did say that were the company to go this route “performance wouldn’t be degraded. That’s somewhat reassuring, but as to how to achieve such an outcome wouldn’t be easy. And changing the characteristics of the relatively high-revving hatch to a diesel beast with even more torque steer doesn’t sound attractive at all.