No, but only 5% of them are scheduled to be built with a manual trans so they might as well all be automatics. Mazda makes great handling cars (a Protege I rented a while back was the best-handling, best-braking 4-door I've ever driven) but they lack power and saddling them with automatics while trying to be a sportscar guy's sedan is stupid.

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