2021 Mazda CX-3 Review: Going, going…

Auto123 reviews the 2021 Mazda CX-3.

It’s not every day you start out writing a car review and end up writing a eulogy. Well, a partial eulogy, anyway. If ever there was such a thing.

Unfortunately today, that’s what I’m doing because as I write this and by the time you read it, you may have seen the announcement that the Mazda CX-3 will be discontinued in the US after the 2021 model year. It will still soldier on in Canada, though, although if you want one you might want to move on that soon, because who knows how long it will be before our market falls into line with our neighbours down south. And after driving it for a week (in addition to numerous other opportunities over the years), I would say you could very well want one.

Mazda pulling the plug on the little CX-3 in the US comes as little surprise. It’s the fate that befell the CX-7 a short time after the CX-5 arrived (and quickly became the brand’s bestseller in Canada). So as soon as the new – and very good – CX-30 arrived, the CX-3’s days became numbered. And yet, it is proving unkillable in Canada in the short term! Recall that the vehicle with which the CX-3 shared many of its parts, the Mazda2, disappeared from Canada in 2015, and yet the CX-3 survived that. And so it does now, even though it’s a goner down south. For that, you can thank the model’s healthy sales performance in the Great White North.

Drive one and its hardiness is easier to understand.

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