The 1990 Mazda 323 Protégé stretched common notions of performance for subcompacts.  Mazda engineers endowed the all-aluminum 1.8-liter twin-cam engine available on the 323 Protégé with many of the technological updates more familiar to sport sedans: four-valve-per-cylinder combustion chambers, a dual-tract tuned intake manifold, and a pair of hollow-cast camshafts.  All this added up to a … Continue reading 1990 Mazda 323 Protégé Test Drive