Hello, first post around here. I kinda like the Mazda 3 hatchbacks and I've sat in the 2010 quite a few times. Even test drove the 2008 a bit.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Mazda basically took the Speed3 seats from 04 - 09 years and put them across the entire Mazda3 and speed3 line for 2010+.

And IIRC, the 2004 -09 Mazda 3's had much more mellow seats in them, as in, the sides 'bolters' were not so high and aggresive like in the 2010's.

Not to **** anyone off, but I kinda think it was a mistake to put the aggresive seats across the entire line of the 3's. I never had a problem seeing deep bucket seats in the speed3 cars, but they're not so comfortable to me in the regular 3's.

Anyone else kind of agreeing with me here? btw, I'm pretty tall with long legs which doesn't help, but I only weigh like 180 lbs.

 

Hi cycledrum! I'm new here too...just another Mazda 3 fanatic that's why I joined this forum. Anyway, since I'm more into Mazda 3, I agree with you on this.

I love my car...comfortable with it, in and out...I just won't trade it for anything else