Banana I too am been seeking a FWD GT but have been told by 10 dealers from PA/NJ/DE that no FWD GT's will ship in our area until new year. It's like Mazda decided that anything north of VA is snow areas and they want to push the AWD version hard. The dealers won't even take an order for FWD GT!!
Very much appreciate the advice Banana....did exactly what you suggested but no luck. The two dealers closest to me won't even respond to emails regarding a FWD GT! As suggested earlier in the posts I think Mazda wants to capitalize on the bad winters we have in the NJ/PA area and sell as many as possible AWD versions.....and not hurt mazda 3 hatchback sales too.
I even asked both dealers if they would special order it.....not even a response. The one dealer has 31 CX-3's in stock right now. I'm going to try closer to Christmas and hope that Mazda starts shipping some to the Northeast States. In the meantime let us know how you like your FWD version! What type of MPG's you averaging?
And a thank you for member who welcomed me to Forum too!
1138 I'm going to take your info and see if I can special order from Maple Shade Mazda in South Jersey (where I live). Can you share if Ramsey took anything off of MSRP? Dealers I'm dealing with here are not dealing at all yet....maybe soon since the inventories are growing. Appreciate all your help!
Oh and too the member who said there's 625 FWD CX-3's....I'm sure you're correct nationally but the Grand Touring FWD's are no where to be found here in the NorthEast.
DJ I agree that there are hundreds of FWD CX-3's but to clarify if you want a Grand Touring version with FWD that's where, dependent on geography, you're screwed. Dealers north of VA have none. January is the company line that all of them are saying is when Mazda will begin shipping FWD versions to these areas.
DJ I did what you suggested and there's a grand total of 6 FWD with the Grand Touring package within 250 miles of Northern VA. Again Mazda has purposefully chosen not to ship the FWD GT version to large parts of the US. It's BS in my opinion and the two dealers I spoke to in NJ told me they are not happy about it either. You're blessed to be in VA but us NJ folks are SOL.
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