Once in a while a manufacturer introduces a car to a sector that makes you think seriously about deviating from the norm.
The all-wheel-drive 260PS Mazda 6 MPS is exactly such a car. If you’re planning to spend about £24,000 (£23,995 to be exact) there’s plenty of choice – and the safe money goes to the BMW 3-series or Audi A4. But like we say, it’s safe money and as a result everyone’s got them. You can’t drive for more than a mile or so without seeing yet another one.
And in comparison to the Mazda they are also slow and dull – not in looks, but in driver excitement. If you’re a user-chooser and you can afford the fuel (27.7mpg isn’t brilliant) precious little else will be as exciting and still seat five in comfort with a large boot. And it does all this without the boy-racer image you find in a Subaru Impreza.
Verdict A good, but unorthodox, way of spending £24,000 on a company car
