[Music] this is the Mazda 2 I reckon it is the
best all-round small car you can get on the market today it's very well
engineered it looks fantastic is packed full of stuff and has the safety package
from a much more expensive car this is the 2020 Mazda 2 and as Mazda is not
keen on doing big updates that means lots of little things theres new headlights
and they're only a little bit different there's a new grille really cool 3d
thing and there are new wheels and Mazda has done something that pleases me very
much this chrome blade thing now goes right to the edge of the headlights so
it makes it look a little bit wider so you know stance bra for more searing
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channel also for 2020 Mazda has changed the
naming convention so where before you could get the Mazda 2 neo the Genki
and the max not necessarily in that order you now get the pure the evolve
and the GT this is the top-of-the-range GT / that all got the same engine the
1.5 liter 4-cylinder it now has 82 kilowatts and while that's only one
extra kilowatt it has five more Newton meters of torque and that's good
even better master also says it has lower emissions this is the top of the
range the GT at 25 990 that's quite a lot of money for a little car you can't
even get a Mazda 2 for under 21 grand anymore and that's a manual pure anyway
up here in the top end you've got this really nice leather steering wheel it's
from all the other Mazdas I really like this wheel it's just the right size dual
zone climate control mzd connect it is the old version that's not the tricky
new one from the CX-30 and the three look it's fine it's also got apple carplay
and android auto and it has sat-nav you've got this funky little heads-up
display which folds up in front of you very clever and it's got new graphics on
it the old one was very hard on the eyes but that was a while ago now you've got
this blue leather which I'm not a huge fan of but you've got the synthetic
suede to stop you sliding around if you just catch it in the corner of your eye
in the back so it looks like someone very wet has been sitting in the back so
that's been very confusing today your air vents everywhere two cupholders and
somewhere to put your phone with two USB ports and a 12 volt so there's a lot of
stuff in here let's have a look in the back
[Music] you're in the back it's not so great as
you can see a little bit of a contortion to get in not huge but that's quite a
small space to get yourself in if you've got Dicky knees or Dickie hips it might
be a little bit tricky now I mean I'm behind where I Drive I'm about 180
centimeters tall and I'm just touching the back but it is soft so you haven't
got a hard surface or too hard up against and I can get my feet under here
it's not uncomfortable but it's very snug you know that's high so there's not
a lot of glass small children might feel a little bit lost you know down here in
the depths there's no storage except for this map pocket and you know
you can reach this tray there's no armrest nowhere to put a bottle It's a
bit lonely actually but you know it's such a small car you can actually reach
the cup holders there you can swipe a drink from the driver without them even
knowing but yep short trips only the boot is predictably tiny at 270 liters
now that's not tiny tiny but it's not very big
you've also got to remember that this loading lip is actually quite a lot
higher than the boot floor so you kind of have to hoist things over it there's
no fancy false boot floor when you fold the seats down it's not flat so you're
not going to be able to get any Ikea home in this car having said that I did
get three bin bags like big bin bags full of clothes in here and it shot just
fine I really like small cars but I really
like driving the Mazda 2 and there is a couple of reasons why I like that partly
because we drive so many SUVs getting into a small car is like it's little it fits
down side streets it's really good that Mazdas in particular and obviously the
Mazda to have this tricky thing called G vectoring control and in the Mazda 2
they've also got the Plus version so what G vectoring does is when you're
coming up to a corner it detects that you've turned the wheel and it does this
little thing that race drivers do it there's a little lift of the throttle
which means that the weight just subtly shifts forward and you feel like you've
got more grip going through the corner and that it doesn't mean much to the
average driver but they can you can feel it you feel that extra bite through the
front wheels and it just makes you feel a little bit more confident in what's
happening I really like that and with the Plus version it's got torque vecotring
so a lot of cars have this so it when you are coming out of the corner and
you've given it a little bit too much throttle it just means that the brakes
just nip that wheel that might be about to spin or is actually spinning and just
gives you again more gripping confidence coming out of the corner and again most
buyers aren't really going to care but if you know it's there you can really
feel it and I it's just a really nice feature that makes the car more fun to
drive but it also means that when you turn the wheel it happens it does a lot
of small cars you're really soft when you turn the wheel and you're kind of
like oh but this it turns like a hot hatch which is one of the reasons I
really like it but you don't have all the hassles of a hot hatch which is you
know the cops chasing you and other people trying to race you at the lights
it's not a fast car the 1.5 liter engine it doesn't have a lot of power it's you
know the torque figure is not bad for a little 1.5 naturally-aspirated so it's
it's not characterful it's not fast but it's just enough to get it going and you
can have a little bit of fun while you're driving around
it also rides really well for a small car although the ghost of Mazda 2s
past still haunts the car it's a bit clunky bumpy like you hear it rather
than feel it but it would be nice it was just a little bit more damped but really
I'm starting to pick nits here it's it's it's a really good car to drive the
steering's great the brakes feel really good whether you're in town or out in
the country this is a car I'd quite happily drive long distances outside of
the city it's not just a city car it's quite accomplished it's reasonably quiet
in the cruise so you're kind of getting the vibe that this is really good for a
small car and a really good small car they don't really make small cars like
this at least not until you're in an Audi
the other thing that's really cool about this is all the safety gear you've got
front AEB you got rear AEB you've got collision warnings you've got blind
spots and it's got everything so if you hit something in this car that's on you
so as you can tell the changes for 2020 aren't very big at all because the
Mazda2 was already a really good car it has plenty of safety it's got
plenty of gear it does cost a lot of money though so you don't really need to
spend all the money on the GT pure or the Evolve had already got everything
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