The new littlest Mazda could be the next best thing to happen to the B-segment

As I am sure you all know, Mazda is a major player in the Premere Vehicles Group Owned and opperated by Ford Motor Company World Wide. As such, everytime a new Mazda comes to America, everyone wished Ford would rebadge it. A good example of this is the Ford/Mazda C1 platform whish is the Ford of Europe Focus, the Mazda3/Axela and the Volvo s40. The platform is modified and used for other cars like the Mazda5 micro-minivan, but for the most part Ford dealers really want to stop selling the old Focus 170 platform and start selling the Focus C1.

Although that will not happen until 2009, at which point it might be too late, Ford dealers may get a breath of fresh platform soon enough. Enter the newest, and smallest Mazda for the new decade. The 2008 Mazda2 is to show it self in Geneva, and is poised to amaze even the most anti-mazda/ford guy around.

This little car is the best answer to the Honda Fit. There is no other car in the b-segment that can compair to the Fit in total package. The Toyota is nice, but still does not seem to impress or have the sportiness that so many of the sub-15K buyers desire. The Scion comes close but as the (re)starter of the b-segment in America, the xA and xB are old and are going to be replaced both by the xD a kind of streached xB. I don't care how different and out of the box the box-like Scions are, they are still boxes.