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Mazda 6 2006

Mazda 6 2006

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$3,850

The 2006 Mazda 6 range of configurations is currently priced from $2,750.

Our most recent review of the 2006 Mazda 6 resulted in a score of 8 out of 10 for that particular example.

Carsguide Contributing Journalist Graham Smith had this to say at the time: Smithy saysA well-rounded mid-sizer that should be on your shopping list.

You can read the full review here.

This is what Graham Smith liked most about this particular version of the Mazda 6: Mechanically sound, Good looking

The 2006 Mazda 6 carries a braked towing capacity of up to 1500 Kg, but check to ensure this applies to the configuration you're considering.

The Mazda 6 is also known as Mazda Atenza (China and Japan) in markets outside Australia.

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8.9L/100km (combined)
Sedan
5 Speed Automatic
Premium Unleaded Petrol
Overview
Likes
Mechanically sound
Good looking
Dislikes
High kilometres on many

Mazda 6 2006 FAQs

Mazda 6 2006: Blown turbo on diesel

If the engine is damaged as you state the best option is probably to buy a sound used engine from a wrecker. Rebuilding the engine could cost $5000, a good used engine should be bought for less than $2000.

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Mazda 3: Excessive fuel consumption

When doing your research you need to dig deeper and find out the claimed fuel consumption for city and country driving. The Mazda 3 manual is claimed to return on average 7.9 L/100 km, but when you look at the claims for city and country you find that it does 10.8 L/100 km and 6.2 L/100 km respectively, which lines up reasonably well with your experience remembering that the claimed figures are not real life ones like your own are.

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Mazda discs warped

It's frustrating that discs should need replacing at such low kays, but it's not that unusual today. You got 65,000 km out of the second set of discs, which is par for the course. It is something I think carmakers should be looking at and developing new materials or whatever to extend the life of the brakes.

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