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Jan 30, 2009 - Fun with Press Photos: They Don't Takem Like They Used To

How come press photos no longer feature handsome, well-dressed couples standing next to their car in a field while their ethnic nanny tends to their blond child on a pony? I feel like we've lost something.

-James Riswick

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Jan 27, 2009 - Fun with Press Photos: 2010 Mazda Miata Gattaca Edition

Inside Line has its first drive of the 2010 Mazda Miata, which features some beautiful photographs taken in a stylized future world. Here, Leana and Nord take their retractable hardtop roadster to greet Teegan in the courtyard of the Interplanetary Senate building. Hidden inside the glovebox of his yellow Miata, Teegan has the secrets of Leana's childhood genetic engineering -- secrets that could put all their lives in grave danger.

Later, they go for a drive in a video game (below).

-James Riswick

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Dec 1, 2008 - Fun With Press Photos: 2010 Mazda 3 with Horses and Sheep

Seriously, what's with the horses and sheep?

It's after Thanksgiving and I have nothing to talk about. I've already described on the Long Term Blog about my Grand Caravan wallet misadventures, and I suppose I could share my opinion that they should just let Chrysler die, but I'm in a good mood and that would shake me out of it.

So instead, here's a few pictures inexplicably included in the 2010 Mazda 3 press kit. At least the car is actually in the horse one. I have no idea why the sheep's there. It's not like the car is baaaaaaaaad.

So that this isn't a completely wasted entry, here are two pictures of a camouflaged Mazda 3 hatchback since I've had a lot of people asking me about what it looks like. It'll be unveiled soon at a European auto show (70 percent of hatches go there), but it'll go on sale here at the same time as the hatch. From these pictures, it looks pretty much the same from the back as the old car -- very good news. Click on them to enlarge.

-James Riswick

2010 Mazda 3 Hatchback Spy Photo from Iceland -- Photo Courtesy of Mazda North America 2010 Mazda 3 Hatchback Prototype -- Photo Courtesy of Mazda North America

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Jun 25, 2008 - Fun with Press Photos: Damn Durango!


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The baseball team was looking forward to playing but then some jerk parked his Durango on the field.

-James Riswick

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