Mazda 6 HJ comment?

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Fri 16 Aug 2002 13:43
Mazda 6 HJ comment? - Flat in Fifth
In his comment on the Mazda 6 HJ commented in his DT column recently that this is the customer evaluation car for the next Mondeo?

Could HJ or someone else elucidate please?

In my innocence I would imagine that this is something let loose on the public to iron out the bugs. Yet doesn't the Mazda brand generally have better reliability results than Ford?

Tongue in cheek, surely Ford aren't deliberately engineering unreliability in to keep their dealers going?
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Fri 16 Aug 2002 14:45
Mazda 6 HJ comment? - Honestjohn
Development car like the Ibiza was for the Polo and like the Fabia was for the current Polo. Ford will watch customer reaction to the sporty chassis of the Mazda 6 very closely before deciding if it is acceptable for the next Mondeo which it will sell in far greater volumes. This in no way makes the Mazda 6 a bad car.

HJ
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Fri 16 Aug 2002 15:09
Mazda 6 HJ comment? - Flat in Fifth
Ta muchly for that HJ.
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