Sometimes, when talking about inanimate objects, I feel a little bad when being mean and shitting on it. Whatever it is, it didn’t ask to be poorly thought out, engineered, and manufactured. And when you drive certain bad cars, you can’t help but feel like the car knows it’s bad. Like it knows it was born into the world a turd, and you can’t fault it for that, only blame its creators for their negligence.

Enter the Mazda MX-30, one such disaster.

Congratulations Mazda, you made an ev coupe-crossover thing with “MX” in the name with a slower 0-60 than the current ND3 Miata. It’s 8.7 second, by the way. Compared to the upper 5’s for the little roadster. I get that not everything needs to be a rocket, but god damn that’s pitiful performance, especially in the U.S. More so for the only state it’s actually sold in, that being California.

But that 0-60 doesn’t really matter 90% of the time, nor will the people buying one care all the much. Although it should be noted that Mazda took the time to mention how well the car handles since it wears an “MX” badge. Right then. Now, the genius design choices don’t stop at pitiful and confusing performance.

Y’all remember the RX-8? ‘Course ya do, you’re reading MSIMA, you’re expected to! This crossover steals its rear doors!

Yeah so not only do you have no performance, you’ve also got minimal rear passenger space that’s also a trade off with trunk space. Great. I guess the smaller size and curvy sporty roof line can help with efficiency right?

EPA rated range of 100 miles.

Yes Mazda, I would like to have 40 less miles than a top of line Microlino (aka the EV bubble on wheels pictured below) for $10,000 more.

Maybe you actually need to get somewhere and not just drive around a city that you could’ve just taken public transit to navigate. Well fear not, my dear Mazda fanatic, because you can kick back like it’s 2011 and shell out even more money for the range extender hybrid version. That car will have like upper 300-something miles of range thanks to a rotary range extender that will kick on after some 50 miles of electric driving. Ah so the MX-30 e-Skyactiv R-EV is the TRUE successor to the RX7 and RX8! Nice, but that’s not available in the U.S., so 100 miles is all you lucky Californians get.

Ultimately, you have bought a car that doesn’t go, when it does finally move it’s impractical to transport with, and when you want to go places, you can’t get particularly far. At least it looks good I guess. Why you’d choose this over any number of more competent EVs, hybrids, and purpose built city cars is beyond me.

Lastly, if you think you may have access to one of these well styled abominations, do reach out to us @ msima.contact@gmail.com. We’d love to try one out!