The seats are also wider and more padded than before, and every variant gets a much improved integrated head-up display mounted atop the instrument cowl. It’s not a dinky flip-up glass unit like you find on some other Mazda models. Without this, there’d be no digital speedo.
It’s the materials used that grab you, though. All versions are well made, but the top-of-the-range Atenza is now reaching into luxury territory thanks to Nappa leather seats (in dark brown or white, strangely enough), suede dash and door inserts, and the liberal use of Sen wood trim, the same stuff used in traditional Japanese instruments.
You can get a breakdown on the pricing and specs in much more detail here, but a summary shows price cuts of up to $600 on lower-level versions, and increases of up to $2300 on the higher-end grades, offset by inclusions worth that much and more.
The base Sport costs $32,460 before on-road costs and has features such as LED headlights, the 8.0-inch screen with satellite navigation, DAB+, button start, climate control, and active safety including autonomous emergency braking (AEB) with pedestrian detection, radar-guided adaptive cruise control, and blind-spot monitoring.
The equivalent Touring costs $4200 more but adds leather seats, a Bose audio system with more speakers, keyless go and a few other bits and pieces. It’s another $7300 for the GT that adds the new turbo-petrol option, bigger wheels, and heated seats.
Top of the line is the $3500–$3700 pricier Atenza, which gets adaptive headlights, ambient LEDs in the cabin, a sunroof, Mazda-first ventilated seats, digital TFT instruments that are strangely non-configurable, and a 360-degree camera that could use a better lens to improve the resolution. Nissan has the same problem. As does Lexus.
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