Great little car, cheap to maintain and easy to service. Still have my 1997 323 Astina hardtop 1.8 ltr auto as a daily beater driver. Done 207,000 with no mechanical problems, only one rocker cover gasket replacement.

This car is amazing, new cars cant be live 23 years, everything is working on car, mazda, old mazdas:👍

I have one of these, i've struggled with the headlights too. Ended up installing an HID kit in the low beams, visibility at night is amazing now.

Fun fact, Mazda 323F from 97 actually has cup holders

Really like the pacing on this video. Felt like more than 4 minutes, but in a good way.

I got one 4 years ago.. An older lady drove it to the shops only.. Has low ks felt new since it was a garage queen.. Its a great run around and great dynamics.. Holds the road very well.. Shape looks great and is noticeable in the sea of the same. For me a great little work horse that corners extremely well

this car is amazing..i have this car now ..i never had a problem in 22 yers ..great car i tell you

put a small spoiler and this thing looks perfect

I had the 97’ estoril blue version nearly/0 years ago now. It was very unique in its design back then and the drive around town was incredible. Great video mate, brought back alot of fun memories.

Actually they are on the correct side for RHD, but the UK at some point decided to change to Euro, probably because LHD euro manufacturers were never going to bother changing that for a small market like the UK. Heck they probably expected the UK to switch to driving on the other side of the road at some point. Anyway, Japan and Australia still have the indicators on the right where they are supposed to be.

Best car i ever had, never let me down

My family's got two of these, both of which are 1.5L models, both have spoilers on the back & are from 1998 but with different prefix letter numberplates. The oldest of the two which is an LXI just like this but in red rather than maroon is an R reg vehicle while the 2nd vehicle which is one of the rarer Intrigue models is an S reg. The LXI my family has almost had from new being aquired in Aug 1998 at 4 months old (the previous owner wrote the car off in a cat D accident) and following repairs has been a good runner ever since. Purchased originaly for my father he then gave it to my mother and after I aquired my driving licence in 2012 and a short period of sharing the car, after she got given a 1999 VW golf cabriolet I got given the car. Only last October (2019) did it return to the road following 4 years of storage from 2015, this being due to a core plug failure at Ribblehead Viaduct while I was out filming for KZfaq. The storage period alongside replacement of the core plug included a full repaint and removing dents alongside other necessary repairs (for it's age there is no rust on it at all). It's only recently passed 80,000 miles on the clock. The Intrigue meanwhile was aquired in Jun 2015 originaly as a spares donor but was in too good condition to break up so was kept on the road being my replacement for the LXI following the core plug failure at Ribblehead and remained on the road until last October when it failed an MOT owing to corrosion in the four corners and a corroded brake pipe. The future of the vehicle is unknown at present but it's likely to become a donor vehicle now unless a major restoration can be undertook.

In a right hand drive car such as the one you have the indicator stalk SHOULD be on the right. Try indicating with the stalk on the left and change gears...it's fine if you have 2 left hands but many people don't.

My actually all time favorite Mazda. Looks great, even today.

This car is the old one, for example in mine (1997) i can put my coffee xD

Mazda is a silent warrior

My dad had a green one of these great little car never let him down he said

That was a good review.. nice job

I loved this video!

You left the frameless door.. its quiet cool

I bought myself a 1.8 Executive after 3 years of searching. Fantastic car. Great cruiser on the motorway, and very chuckable on a B road. Not to mention the engine singing beyond 7k rpm when you plant your foot. I plan to mod mine when I have the mechanical components all sorted

Nice review 👍

Great review!

love it Nick!

My grandma has one of those, its gone about 300000 km, its still in almost perfect condition!

Pause at 0:50 owner of the car must drive it on Gran Turismo 2 as well. Sticker of the track Mid-field Raceway on the left on the boot lid. Lantis 323f is in both Gt1 and Gt2

I would argue having the indicator on the right is way nicer.

My dad owned a 98 323f BA for almost twenty years. It never broke down and rarely had any problems. The only major Problem with these is rust. Certain spots just love to rot away. Other than that I loved that car and he did as well. It's got lots of charme, it's comfy, it looks cool and even the 1.5 liter engine sounds good. In the end he had to give it away since his family kept growing and the car just became too small. Also the Spoiler fell off and it began having a few rust issues. Thanks for the review I really enjoyed it.

These cars had superb brakes as well.

I would not say the 1.5 was sluggish to be honest..It was quiet nippy I found .even when I had a set of 16" TSWs under my one. Basicly it could stay with any other car with the same size engine like a Civic LSi . It actually felt it had more than 90Bhp and it could certainly crack 0 to 60 mph quicker than 11.9..I would say 10 flat easy. On a final note ..it was a very reliable car and looked away ahead off its time back in the mid 90s.

Did those 6 CD changers come standard with these cars? They look super cool especially for a 90s car and I cannot find any information on it

My friend has the 1.8 version I believe. Came with the auto gearbox. Seating position was pretty low and yeah, the seats were great. Very nice and grippy, and pretty comfy. The only issue my friend has had with it was having the gearbox kill itself

Correction those wiper stalks and indicators are right because its a RIGHT hand drive car UK cars are terrible for having left hand drive indicators and wiper stalks everyone thinks this is right but it isn't the reason for it is European car makers make alot of lhd cars across europe and the UK just gets the same is the reason behind this but if it was in a right way every rhd car would have the correct rhd controls

Mateo watson is that you ? Lol great review

Mazda is dynamic as for 1.5 and 90s constructions, has short gears. I've had this car for 3 years, and it's trouble-free. Plus, it doesn't smoke much on the road. At 80-90km/h I went down to 6.7 litres of petrol. The disadvantage is certainly the poor visibility from behind

I owned a 1.8 manual. Good little car but not sporty. 113hp 1.8l engine provides good mid range punch for this class of car but thrashy and weak at high revs. Fuel economy pretty good at 7L/100kms on open road

I really want to import one of these to the United States

I wonder how sporty it is with an engine that isn't the extra small engine.

Wait the 1.6 wasn't sold there? We don't have the 1.5 and 2.0 tho.

i prefer the pop up headlights one

I liked the video. Please what is the type of Headlights? H1? H4? H7? I want to upgrade to Led Headlights and remove the old one.

I disagree with most of what you said. Yes the 1.5 is quite sluggish although compared to alot of other cars around the time and even today it's not that bad. It is most definitely a sporty car compared to alot of other cars in the same segment. That's the whole point of the F models! (it is NOT a sports car though). If you had the 2.0 V6 then it would definitely have quite a spring in it's step and an amazing soundtrack.

Mazda 323f hb incelemesi istiyoruz

Wait, my aerial's supposed to be electric?

Bought it few days ago with 1 goal - KLZE swap

Please need the modol

Lo tienes muy bonito

If u want to Fix your problem with the rubbish awful light output, Get Some Boslla Led's like i did for mine 323F u will thank me later :)

old mazdas are one of the cheapest and easiest cars to maintain and theyre also extremely relaible. as i was a kid my father used to have a mazda 626. after 230k kilometers the only things he had to change were brakes, timing belts, spark plugs, motor oil. you know the usual stuff. not even once he had to deal with engine problems, blown shocks or ripped drive shaft boots. the only thing that might stop you is rust. until the second generation of the mazda 6 they had been notorius to rust and it shows on most of the old mazdas sadly

Mazda kvalitetno auto i dobro.

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I drove this car, an automatic version

You could literally cut the 0-60 time in half with a KLZE swapped V6 in there.

Mazda RX 6.5

45 MPG? Yeah, but only if you just let it idle till it's out of gas lol

Hi

How much

Yeah good luck finding the 2.0

i put a hole in my friends mazda 323f while drunk. where can i get a rear right side panel 😂

I googled “what is a hipster?” And you popped up lol 😂…….. there are way to many hipsters 🤢

Back when cars were reliable & beautifully sculptured unlike the utter crap out there today!

Can you slow speak? Please. BEcause, ı dont understand anything.

Who came here from carwow

It's not a 4 door MX-5.. because you've got a 1.5L, But also the entire car is heavier than the NA Miata. Also.. your trim level makes no sense to me. The GX trim level (which your door panels are, which is also what the 3doors version was equiped with) is supposed to have cupholders in front of the shifter. The GLX trim level doesn't have cupholders, which is even weirder because it's supposed to be the Grand Luxury trim. But your entire dashboard is a GLX trim version, but you have GX door panels. Wot?