![]() ![]() The essence of our group? The passion we share for our Mazda Protege's and the ZOOM,ZOOM driving experience! Further IMHO, we are all blessed to own, the very best econo-sports sedan available. The regulars that have contributed to the Mazda PRO Topics over the last year and half, are awesome folks! I have been blessed with the opportuntie to meet several of the owners who post here at Edmunds Town Hall! To a person they have all been super nice and generous people, willing to share their knowledge and experiences with anyone interested. Thank you very much KarenS for starting this owner's topic for the Mazda Protege "Posse". Wow, what a car! I now have a little over 14,000 miles on the car and I love it more each day! Zoom zoom!!!! The truck was paid off last March, and in May 2000 I picked up my 2000 Protege ES 5-speed. But since I was upside down from getting rid of the Protege before I was at a break-even point, I had to suffer through with the truck until it was paid off. I traded that Protege on a 1994 Mazda B2300SE pickup - a rebadged Ford Ranger - and had engine problems nearly from the very beginning. ![]() Trading that car on a pickup truck was the worst thing I ever did. (I DID swap out those awful Potenza tires at 25,000 miles - they were bald by then anyway - and got some decent Yokohamas.) The second Protege was also a 1992 LX - and I drove it 83,000 miles without one problem. That Protege totaled itself so I could WALK AWAY from the accident. PRICE Low end: ’99 DX, 140,000 km, wholesale $2,000, retail $3,625.Hey everybody! I'm on my third Protege too, although not really by choice - my first one, a 1992 LX, died at 28,000 miles when its crappy Bridgestone POORtenza tires hydroplaned and caused it to rear-end a mid-80s Volvo station wagon (aka "brick wall") at a traffic light. NHTSA recall history Fluid leakage could occur on certain vehicles, causing brake performance to be degraded (’00-’01) NHTSA crash-test results Front impact (out of five:) driver/passenger 5/4. TRANSMISSIONS Five-speed manual, four-speed automatic Safety Driver and passenger air bags, ABS (optional on some models) TYPE OF VEHICLE Front-wheel-drive sedan/wagonĮNGINES 1.6L four-cylinder, 105 hp, 107 lb-ft of torque 1.8L four, 110 hp, 122 lb-ft of torque 2.0L four, 130 hp, 135 lb-ft of torque 2.0L four, 140 hp, 142 lb-ft of torque turbocharged 2.0L four, 170 hp, 160 lb-ft of torque ![]() Like the lovable Bimmer, the Protege is nimble, quick, fun to drive and can still carry four and their booty in SPECS If you love to drive and can look past the Civic and Corollas clogging up most used car lots, the ’99-’03 Mazda Protege is much like the original compact sports sedan, the ’68-’. With a ride stiffer than that of any Protege to date, the MP3 cornered flat and begged to go apex hunting around every corner. Mazda was trying to appeal to the then-fresh Fast and Furious tuner crowd with a slightly more powerful engine, low-profile rubber on 17-inch Racing Hart wheels, exclusive Laser Blue or Vivid Yellow exteriors and a come-and-get-me-copper body kit with a gaping front air dam and a rear wing on which a 747 could land. A five-speed manual transmission was standard and a four-speed automatic was available.Īlong with a front fascia redesign for 2001, Mazda launched the MP3 model named for the Kenwood MP3-capable audio system. Topline Protege SEs received a 1.8L four with 122 hp. Initially, the 1999-2003 Protege’s base engine was a 105- horsepower, 1.6-litre four-cylinder, with 13 more hp than the previous-generation’s 1.5L mill. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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