text: Maybe by 2008 things got better, but my wife's 2005 is a rust bucket. While I know it was originally bought in Calgary, and I'm not sure when it left but for the majority of the years it spent it's time in the Okanagan where things are pretty dry and very little humidity and yet it's still got several pockets of rust forming. The car gets regular attention, always washed and waxed. Mazda sadly has a history of rust.