Mazda 3 is once again the most popular small car here, and with reason. No surprises the well-styled, well-priced hatch/sedan has a lot of fans, considering the line-up includes everything from diesel-powered sipper models right up to the giant-killing turbo MPS. Despite the release of updated versions of category favourites like VW's latest Golf and Mitsubishi's reworked Lancer, a significant and stylish facelift for 2009 kept the 3 at top-of-mind for buyers and extended its dominance of the Small Car segment.