After our time with the 2007 Mazda MazdaSpeed 3 (which included flogging it around the 11 turns of Laguna Seca raceway), we walked away convinced that the car’s high-performance potential is only a small part of its appeal. Being able to drive it hard on the track all day and then stop to load up on super-sized commodities from your neighborhood warehouse store on the way home, well, now that’s what we call wild.

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