2010 Mazda3 Hatchback Coming to Bologna Motor Show in a Few Weeks

If you read our first drive of the 2010 Mazda3 Sedan you probably picked up on the note that the sedan and hatch will go on sale together in the first quarter of next year, and that the hatch will be shown at a European show, that being the five-door's biggest market. But wait, isn't the next big European show Geneva? And isn't that in March? It makes no sense!

Well, we got to the bottom of that issue by sitting down for dinner this week with Mazda's PR staff. The Mazda3 five-door won't debut at Geneva but instead the Bologna show taking place on December 3-14. All you Mazda fans can mark it down on your calendar. However, the new line up still won't be complete after that debut, with the Mazdaspeed variant still hiding. Maybe Mazda could show that one at Geneva.