After releasing the new generation Mazda6 onto the market, the company has focused its attention on the development of the next generation Mazda3. The first details suggest that the model will arrive in Summer 2013 and will be ready for the US market as a 2014 model year.

Today, British magazine AutoExpress is dropping what appears to be the first images of the next generation Mazda3. According to the site, these are digital renderings received from Mazda->ke53 to confirm what everyone else already knew: the next Mazda3 will feature the company's latest Kodo design language already unveiled in the design of the new Mazda6.

The next Mazda3 will be offered in the same 4-door sedan and 5-door hatchback configurations as the current generation. It will benefit from Mazda’s fuel-saving SkyActiv tech making it both lighter and more fuel efficient. We also expect to see an MPS version, but we'll have to wait a little bit longer for confirmation of that.

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