What the 3 Shoulda Been
 

This is the direction Mazda should have taken the 3.
http://www.lexus.com/fcv/lf_ch.html
The Lexus LF-Ch concept looks like it could have been the 2010 Mazda3 5-door. The LF-S probably could have been the 4-door.

AGREED!! It has a nicer front end! haha

still has poor aerodynamics....it looks more appealing

If they looked like that, I'd actually want a new mazda 3 :p

AS long as that color goes and the rims change I have no Problem with it!

I just think it looks like what the 3 could have progressed to. I could see it as 3 concept car and moved into production.
Well, not now that they went the way of the guppy-whale.

ya i agree as well cleaner looking lines and flows smoothly front the front end to the rear end...

The shape of the side could pass for mazda, but the front end still says "Lexus".
And I don't mean the emblem.

I think one of these will be the new Mazda 3 for 2011 or 2012
Click on the image to enlarge.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/891/cmaz1.th.jpg
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1423/cmaz.th.jpg
Bob.

The top one looks like a CX-7.

And the hood on the bottom ones reminds me of a Chrysler Crossfire.
Though both of them look better than the '10.