course of normal driving.
The interior is well appointed, and both variants comes with leather upholstery and a multi-function steering wheel as standard, along with front, side and curtain airbags.
The six-speaker standard sound system on the 2.0-litre model sounds good, while 2.5-litre variant includes Tom Tom GPS navigation in the infotainment unit plus the 11-speaker Bose setup which sounds impressive and better to the class norm to these ears.
At just under RM160,000 for the 2.0-litre and RM190,000 for the 2.5-litre, the Mazda 6 is slightly pricier than the competition from Toyota, Nissan and Honda. But it makes up for the price difference with the inclusion of automatic stop-start and brake
energy regeneration, features that were not previously available in this segment.
At press time, Honda is on the cusp of releasing the new Accord locally and the Nissan Teana’ s replacement is due soon too.
For the time being, at least, the Mazda 6 tops the Japanese lot with a compelling blend of comfort, performance and featurerich packaging.
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