I backread all 123 pages of this thread and it seems that there aren't really much people who bought the 2.0R back then. Was hoping to learn more about the Mz3 but there was really nothing discussed that wasn't available in the brochures back in the day. Of course, it can also be viewed as something positive - the Mazda 3 wasn't a headache to own so there wasn't much discussion about it.