Top 5 Reviews and Videos of the Week: The 2019 Mazda CX-3 Takes Over
By Patrick Masterson
September 14, 2018
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2019 Mazda CX-3 | Cars.com photo by Fred Meier
For a refreshing change of pace in our tally of the week’s most popular car reviews, try the refreshed 2019 Mazda CX-3, which takes over the top spot from the perennially popular Jeep Wrangler. Though the CX-3 has charted before, this is the first time it ascends to the top of the order.
It hasn’t taken long to climb that order, either. Published Aug. 31, reviewer Fred Meier — a fan of the CX-3 — notes that it “stands out for its looks, interior quality, sporty driving, safety tech and good gas mileage” despite some shortcomings with cargo hauling, fitting child seats and adverse winter weather.
There’s also a new leader on the video side of things. Whether it’s putting a key fob to your chin for better range or just figuring out which side of the car your gas tank is on without getting out to check, our video of car hacks contains a few key tips you may not know you needed. And what’s more, that’s the only video from last week’s top five to return.
Interested in what else is popular? Check out the below lists for what your fellow readers are scoping out.
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Patrick Masterson is Chief Copy Editor at Cars.com. He joined the automotive industry in 2016 as a lifelong car enthusiast and has achieved the rare feat of applying his journalism and media arts degrees as a writer, fact-checker, proofreader and editor his entire professional career. He lives by an in-house version of the AP stylebook and knows where semicolons can go.