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Old 07-24-2015, 09:49 AM   #10
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The material quality is way nicer on prestige brands. Mazda in real life is noticeably way cheaper quality especially. Tin can doors, far less isolation from the exterior, no comparison. Of all brands Mazda probably look the best in the brochure and feel the cheapest in driving. Even the proportions of their mock luxury details are scaled way down. Economy cars with copied luxury car shapes, that's just about it for the interior. And on the exterior there are huge visible differences. My mom drives a CLA with the AMG esthetic package. The car looks sophisticated and mature for a Merc "economy" car. Basically it's styled like a scaled down CLS. Sorry but there's no Japanese cars shy of Lexus that come close in that segment. And for an older person the new IS has a way too complicated control system.
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