Street Sighting ~ Mazda 323
January petered out and the start of Feb fell off a cliff so back to some regular programming starting with a plastic Japanese survivor car on some wheels. Oh and relax it's a Mazda 323 GTX so it's actually special. Not so much special because a partition of these are 4WD-turbocharged cars homologated to go group A racing, but more such a rare and curious machine to be street parked in the eastern suburbs. Now I guessing this specific car is an AU-delived FWD DOHC turbo simply because it it was 4WD it would likely be sporting more decals to say so. That aside I loved walking around this 2-door economy hatch and taking notes of the little ways Mazda tried to hot to body up to match the 1.6l turbo4 under the bonnet. Turbo decals, tick* Spoiler/s, tick* no way, sunroof too. It also had a chin spoiler (lip), side skirts and a real schmick looking interior that is likely a high trim variant. It's a level-headed hot hatch if there's such a thing. Kind of boring, probably ...