Mazda 6 review (20/02/2013)

HEARD the one about the motoring hack who travelled halfway across Europe for a car launch and never drove the car?

Mazda invited me to Portugal to the pan-European launch of their exciting new 6 range. I took the ‘red-eye’ from Cork to Amsterdam and transferred to a Lisbon flight and arrived lunchtime.

Myself, a colleague from Dublin, and Mazda’s Irish PR man headed along a marked route to a hotel 120kms distant for the overnight stay. Three kilometres out of the airport, we were lost.