#Protege wagon license#
#Protege wagon plus#

More black mesh in the mouthy airdam below the bumper, with a foglight on each side. Sleek headlights (straight off the “prosaic” Protege), a moonroof, black diamond mesh grille that hints at a smile.

The center brake light (CHMSL) has 24 small bulbs that definitely catch your attention. There’s a standard black roofrack, and the black radio antenna is raked back from the rear center of the car. The spoiler fits like an eyelid over the slanted rear hatch. In profile it looks like a short Subaru Legacy GT wagon, but it’s prettier at each end. Great-looking 5-spoke, 16-inch alloy wheels, either brushed or polished like chrome. Trim cladding, just side sills and air dams. Separate options are: moonroof ($700) ABS and side airbags ($800) four-speed automatic transmission ($800) polished alloy (chrome-look) wheels ($500) security alarm ($220) cassette player ($150) in-dash six-disc CD changer ($500) floormats ($80) cargo net ($35) wheel locks ($30) and moonroof deflector ($40).

#Protege wagon plus#

The Vivid Yellow in the commercial is the call.īase price is $16,335 plus $480 freight.

The main thing is, it comes in five colors. So sometimes this exciting car finds itself being called a “five-door vehicle” by its maker. Mazda is trying to not call the Protege5 a wagon without defying reality, which takes a bit of marketing and semantic tightrope-walking.

#Protege wagon license#

With a little literary license (or a lot), the Protege5 might be described as a cross between the Miata and the Tribute mini-SUV. Protege5 uses the same 130-horsepower, 2.0-liter, dohc inline four-cylinder engine as the Protege sedan. Protege5 is a sport wagon built on the solid platform of the tight, handsome, arguably prosaic, arguably under-appreciated Protege compact sedan (see separate Protege review). But Mazda has been building fetching cars for some time now-RX-7, Millenia and Miata to name three-but can’t seem to get recognized for it. Mazda is trying to create a fetching new feeling, by building more cars like this and letting people know it. PO Box, APO/FPO, Afghanistan, Alaska/Hawaii, American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Montserrat, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Republic of the Congo, Russian Federation, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, US Protectorates, Ukraine, Vanuatu, Virgin Islands (U.S.In the latest of the popular zoom-zoom commercials, the Protege5 is the fetching yellow car dazzling the fetching little boy.