New Mazda3 can take on Focus and Golf

It seems incongruous in a business where pushing technological and engineering boundaries are a commonplace taken-for-granted thing, that certain cars can maintain their position at the head of the sales charts not so much for years, but for decades, without really being challenged even by a determined opposition.

So it has been in the small family car market for eons now as the Volkswagen Golf and the Ford Focus remain the two model ranges that everyone else aspires to topple. Except they have not been toppled, despite being challenged by a plethora of other manufacturers over a fantastically long period of time.