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All the controls are easy to understand, a circular wheel on the transmission tunnel, operates the satellite navigation, phone and the plethora of other facilities. The vehicle also has an electric parking brake, auto hold, cruise control, speed limiter, the heads up display to tell you what speed you are doing or the current speed limits.

An app on your phone allows an integrated system so you can transform the car to start warming up before you get to it, in addition, it would also allow you to stop or start charging should you have your own power point outside. Talking about power if you are buying this car you need to have a large home charging unit installed. I plugged it in to a 13amp to get maximum charge but it did take over 14 hours.

Time will tell with Mazda if the MX30 is going to be a success, if you only do local stop/start local journeys, then this could be the vehicle for you because it was really a delight to be cocooned within its interior and experience the driving dynamics.

The test car had a 3-year or 60,000 miles warranty, the battery life warranty is quoted at 8 years or 100,00 miles, and had an on the road price of £31,315, if you knock off the Government OLEV grant it brings the car down to £28,815.

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