30.4.2019 Leverkusen. The new Mazda3 has a stunning Design. This opinion appeared to be the participants of this year’s Design Trophy from the AUTO ZEITUNG. The Mazda3 not only won the first combined category, put small cars/compact, but also the overall ranking, and left all the competitors far behind. A total of over 10,000 AUTO ZEITUNG readers voted on them at the prestigious Design Trophy in 2019.
In the category of small compact class and won by the Mazda3 wagon/with 34.3 per cent ahead of the Mercedes A-class, with 23.5 per cent and the Audi A1 with 13.8 percent. In the overall standings of the Compact from Mazda has reached 12.7 percent, and left the high-profile competition like the Porsche 911, with 7.6 per cent and Aston Martin DBS with 7.6 percent.
The new Mazda3 is the first production vehicle that shows the more advanced Version of the Kodo design. For the first time, the expression of the art came to full development of the Mazda design concept car RX-Vision, the Mazda showed at Tokyo Motor Show 2015, as well as the Vision Coupe Concept that was unveiled in 2017, in Tokyo.
The clean lines and energetic proportions, the sporty hatchback model have a high emotional appeal. Especially the design of the rear vehicle area is unique: the cabin and the body work from this perspective, so thanks to the powerful C-pillars as a single solid mass.
Mazda has omitted entirely on character lines and relies instead on the beauty of the curved body parts, in which the surroundings are reflected.
The AUTO ZEITUNG Design Trophy in 2019, is for the new Mazda3 under the title “Red Dot: Best of the Best” in the Red Dot Product Design Awards in 2019, the beginning of April, now is already the second Design award in a few weeks.
The results of the readers ‘ choice “Design Trophy, 2019” today, in the current issue of AUTO ZEITUNG vom 30. April 2019 published.
Mazda3 (Photo: Mazda)
