If you’re an adventurous family near Baltimore, MD, you may want to ditch the old minivan and opt for a more durable, fun, and stylish car that is still family-friendly. Here at Heritage Mazda Catonsville, we know that a hatchback perhaps isn’t the most conventional choice for a family vehicle, but the new 2016 Mazda3 boasts numerous family-friendly features like ample interior space, a suite of reassuring safety features, and kid-friendly technologies. Now available right here at our dealership, the 2016 Mazda3 is also driver-friendly, featuring an efficient yet powerful engine and smooth acceleration and handling.


As evidence of its family-friendly prowess, the 2016 Mazda3 was recently named as one of Parents Magazine and Edmunds.com’s top vehicles in their annual 10 Best Family Cars list. These publications especially admired the vehicle’s automatic Smart Brake Support and Smart Brake City Support, as well as Blind Spot Monitoring and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert. In their in-depth evaluations, the editors tested hundreds of cars, with the 2016 Mazda3 outperforming its rivals in terms of quality of ride, safety, comfort and capacity, fuel-efficiency, kid-friendly features, price and value, reliability, visibility, controls, and more.

In addition to all these top tier aspects, the 2016 Mazda3 features a few different efficient and powerful engines. The base engine is a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that is good for 155 horsepower and 150 lb-ft of torque. Mazda3s models come equipped with a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine that generates 184 horsepower and 185 lb-ft of torque. With this trim, buyers can also choose the i-Eloop system, which captures and redistributes braking energy, making the car even more fuel efficient.

Head on over to Heritage Mazda Catonsville to see what else the 2016 Mazda3 has to offer you!  

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