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Mazda’s mid-size model arrived for the 2004 model year as the replacement for the long-serving 626 series. The “6” was originally offered as a sedan, but a hatchback was added part way into its second season followed by the Sport Wagon for 2005. The sedan and hatchback came with a 160-horsepower 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine or optional 220-horsepower 3.0-liter V6 (standard in the Sport Wagon). A five-speed manual transmission was standard with both powerplants, while four- and five-speed automatics were available on the I4 and V6, respectively. For 2006-’07, the performance-oriented all-wheel-drive Mazdaspeed6 sedan came with a 274-horsepower 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder matched to a six-speed manual transmission. An all-new sedan model replaced the original Mazda6 for the 2009 model year.<\/p>\n

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Mazda’s mid-size model arrived for the 2004 model year as the replacement for the long-serving 626 series. The “6” was originally offered as a sedan, but a hatchback was added part way into its second season followed by the Sport Wagon for 2005. The sedan and hatchback came with a 160-horsepower 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine or optional 220-horsepower 3.0-liter V6 (standard in the Sport Wagon). A five-speed manual transmission was standard with both powerplants, while four- and five-speed automatics were available on the I4 and V6, respectively. For 2006-’07, the performance-oriented all-wheel-drive Mazdaspeed6 sedan came with a 274-horsepower 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder matched to a six-speed manual transmission. An all-new sedan model replaced the original Mazda6 for the 2009 model year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autofile","category-store-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}