Quote Originally Posted by 113GT View Post
we will agree to disagree then because I do not feel like my gen1 was as good as my gen 2 in the interior quality department. gen1 had a good quality interior but I feel the gen 2 is a step up to that. soft touches, nicer layout, better seats.
Okay, let's agree to disagree. I understand you own a 2nd-gen and it's inevitable that we're all biased towards our own vehicles. No hard feelings!

Couple points in regards to layout though:

1) Prior to 2013, the 2nd-gen Mazda3 had the most unintuitive navigation system currently on the market.

2) Why is the most prominent knob for the stereo control not the volume knob? Every single person I know who has been in a 2nd-gen Mazda3 has complained about the layout of the stereo controls.