Officials at Mazda North American Operations added that 62 percent are expected to be men, and fewer than half will be married. OPTIONS: Automatic transmission $800 power moonroof $700 chrome alloy wheels $500 six-disc, in-dash CD changer $500 floor mats $80. MILEAGE: 25 mpg (city), 30 mpg (highway). TYPE: Front-engine, front-wheel drive, five-passenger, compact station wagon.ĮNGINE: 2-liter, double overhead cam, four-cylinder.
Projected age for Protege5 buyers is just 31. In fact, Mazda hopes this wagon attracts buyers who like a youthful, customized look, even on a station wagon. With front and rear air dams, side sills, rear roof spoiler, 16-inch, chrome wheels and large fog lamps outside and silver-colored accents, black-on-white gauges and a three-spoke, sport steering wheel inside, the Protege5 seems to have just emerged from a customizer's shop, not an auto factory. The nimble, compact-sized Protege5 is all about a new style and a new kind of buyer. The newest wagon, the 2002 Mazda Protege5, is about as far from the big, loose-handling and wallowing family wagons of the 1960s and '70s as you can get. Carmakers sure don't make station wagons like they used to.
