If you love to drive and can look past the Civic and Corollas clogging up most used car lots, the ’99-’03 Mazda Protege is much like the original compact sports sedan, the ’68-’. With a ride stiffer than that of any Protege to date, the MP3 cornered flat and begged to go apex hunting around every corner. Mazda was trying to appeal to the then-fresh Fast and Furious tuner crowd with a slightly more powerful engine, low-profile rubber on 17-inch Racing Hart wheels, exclusive Laser Blue or Vivid Yellow exteriors and a come-and-get-me-copper body kit with a gaping front air dam and a rear wing on which a 747 could land.
2003 MAZDASPEED PROTEGE CAR AND DRIVER MANUAL
A five-speed manual transmission was standard and a four-speed automatic was available.Īlong with a front fascia redesign for 2001, Mazda launched the MP3 model named for the Kenwood MP3-capable audio system. Topline Protege SEs received a 1.8L four with 122 hp. Initially, the 1999-2003 Protege’s base engine was a 105- horsepower, 1.6-litre four-cylinder, with 13 more hp than the previous-generation’s 1.5L mill. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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