Mazda won’t be participating in this week’s Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show 2013 (KLIMS13), but they’re having their own ‘Mazda Motorshow’ at 1 Utama instead, where the 2014 Mazda 3 Sedan will be on show.
Unlike the current Mazda 3 which is locally assembled, the 2014 Mazda 3 2.0 Skyactiv Sedan is coming in as a fully-imported CBU with an indicative price of RM139k. This is a couple of thousand higher than the RM135k price we saw posted on oto.my earlier.
No specs listed other than having a sunroof, and they also have a disclaimer that the car on show at their roadshow may not be 100% the same as the launch specs, so we can’t report much on equipment at the moment. Being a CBU, could we hope for Bose sound and full airbags together with stability control? If the car is locally-assembled later, expect the equipment list to drop as per what happened with the CX-5.
We’ll pay the roadshow a visit tomorrow and come back with more details on the Mazda 3 on show.
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