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Originally Posted by reeves
Lol I own a Mazda3.. of course I'm aware!  I'm guessing you've never seen one up close.. It has a longer hood than most mid-size sedans. |
??? I've seen plenty of Mazda3's plenty close up enough, it's not like they're rare beasts... Wife has '05 fwiw.
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Mazda pushes the entire cabin back a bit (and stretches the engine bay) to make room for their [relatively] long-tube headers on their skyactiv engines. The I-4 is transversely mounted, with headers extending towards the firewall. They could easily fit a longitudinal I-6 in there with the headers coming out one side of the engine. That's what I meant by 'ripe'. 
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A transverse I-4 front-drive car like the Mazda3 is *hardly* "ripe" for having an inline 6 transplanted in there. Best bet would be to make the I6 transverse also like that weird Volvo some years back, in which case length is irrelevant anyway.