{"id":202,"date":"2007-05-17T22:42:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T03:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=202"},"modified":"2007-05-23T23:02:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T04:02:06","slug":"mazda3-sport-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2007\/05\/mazda3-sport-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazda3 Sport GT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After about a month of visiting showrooms and trying out different cars we decided that we want to buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazda.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mazda 3<\/a>. A hatchback Mazda 3 with a moon-roof. After another grueling week of haggling over the total price and then arranging the financing, we picked up our car from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gyromazda.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gyro Mazda<\/a> showroom. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazda.com\/profile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mazda<\/a> gave me a $500 &#8220;new graduate&#8221; credit. You can be eligible for this if you&#8217;ve graduated within the past 4 years. Shekhar, it&#8217;s about time you buy a car! Get a Mazda 3 :D<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_01.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"2007 Mazda 3 Sport GT at the showroom\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_01.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_02.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"2007 Mazda 3 Sport GT at the showroom\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_02.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_03.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"2007 Mazda 3 Sport GT at the showroom\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_03.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_04.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"2007 Mazda 3 Sport GT at the showroom\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_04.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_05.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"First trip from the showroom was to the local Tim Hortons :)\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_05.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_06.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"At Downsview Park on Sheppard Avenue\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_06.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_07.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"Total kilometers when we picked up the car = 8\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_07.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_08.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"The interior lights are just awesome. Love the blue glow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_08.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_09.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"Seriously awesome\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_09.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_10.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"Lunato in her new car\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_10.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/mazda3_sport_GT_11.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[M3GT]\" title=\"sikander filling up the tank (with Esso Extra brand... god, so expensive) after driving almost 520km on the first tank of gas\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/thumb_mazda3_sport_GT_11.jpg?w=580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=884148791413852978\" target=\"_blank\">Mazda 3 Interior Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about a month of visiting showrooms and trying out different cars we decided that we want to buy a Mazda 3. A hatchback Mazda 3 with a moon-roof. After another grueling week of haggling over the total price and then arranging the financing, we picked up our car from the Gyro Mazda showroom. Mazda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XQq-3g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}