Skip to main content
Assistant Managing Editor-News

Matt Schmitz

Former Assistant Managing Editor-News Matt Schmitz is a veteran Chicago journalist indulging his curiosity for all things auto while helping to inform car shoppers.

Stingy backseat legroom plagued the 2017 Mazda3's Car Seat Check. Little 
 has changed for the 2018 model year.
It's National Name Your Car Day (surprise!), so we rounded up some 
 responses to a recent survey on the subject as well as polled our staff for 
 their car's monikers. Here's what we found.