We're half way there!

As of Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, at the OC Mazda Employee Christmas party, it was announced that we have raised over half our goal of ONE MILLION DOLLARS by 2014! Last year, we raised more than $8,000.00 just at the party alone, and this year's party saw that number raised to over $12,000.

We wish you all good health and a heart full of happiness to last you through the year!

Merry Christmas to all....

It's a WRAP! Help support the students of Orange County High School of the Arts!

Tustin Mazda to host the students of Orange County High School of the Arts while they “wrap” for you!

Students of Santa Ana’s Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA) will be offering to do your holiday gift wrapping! The Opera and Choral Conservatory will have students stationed at Tustin Mazda on Friday, Dec. 11 and Sat. Dec 12 to wrap your gifts this year.
The students will be happy to wrap for you on Friday from 4-8 PM and on Saturday from 11-4.
Tustin Mazda is located at 5 Auto Center Drive.
Established in 1987, the Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA) provides a creative, challenging and nurturing environment that offers bright and talented students unparalleled preparation for higher education and a profession in the arts.
This premier public charter school currently serves more than 1,380 students in grades 7-12 from 92 cities throughout Southern California.

OCHSA Named One of America's Top Public High Schools by Newsweek!
OCHSA Named One of O.C.'s Best Public Schools by the Orange County Register!

The Opera & Choral Conservatory is designed as an intensive program offering pre-professional operatic training for talented young singers. Courses offer practical experience in the preparation and performance of audition selections, competition, and recital techniques, with an emphasis on standard operatic literature. In addition, all students receive individual vocal coaching and instruction from experienced professionals. Master classes, with internationally acclaimed singers, conductors, and stage directors, are also offered throughout the school year.

The students are hoping for donations while wrapping and you’ll have all your gifts wrapped, one less thing on your growing holiday list of things to do!

The Orange County High School of the Arts is a tuition-free, donation-dependent, public charter school. No student is admitted or denied based upon financial capacity. However, each school year we must raise approximately $4 million to fund the eleven arts conservatories and we rely on parents and the community-at-large to help us reach this goal.

All cash donations to the school are fully tax deductible. OCHSA is registered as a non-profit organization under IRS Code 501(c)(3).

Congratulations JDRF!!

Over $900,000 was raised at the 2009 Walk to Cure Diabetes this past Sunday!!

More than 5,000 walkers showed their support and one of them will be driving off in the all new, all that 2010 Mazda 3!

The Walk Awards Celebration will be held in January.

Support Mission Hospital at their Gala and you could win a fully loaded 2010 Mazda 6!

For more information on Mission Hospitals December's Gala or other ways to lend a hand to their worthy foundation please go to http://www.mission4health.com/searchclass/?id=2367

It's official! JDRF of Orange County kicks it into gear!

Today was the official kick off to the 2009 Walk to Cure Diabetes! We encourage all our viewers to walk for a cure.
Oh, and by the way, if you love to drive, this will inspire you to walk...OC Mazda is donating a 2 year lease on the all new, all that 2010 Mazda 3! For every $500 you personally raise, you will recieve an entry for a chance to win a brand new Mazda 3, yours to drive for two years!!


Orange County
Walk to Cure Diabetes
Sunday, November 8, 2009
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California
Registration 8:30 a.m.
Walk steps off at 10:00 a.m.

http://www.jdrfoc.org/
follow link for more information and to sign up!

John Patterson of OC Mazda PAYS IT FORWARD!

For the rest of 2009, by clicking on the link below, you can enter the John Patterson PAY IT FORWARD contest!

OC Mazda will pay the car payment for two lucky winners the month their names are selected!

For June, the HB Mazda winner was Quinn Bower, and for Tustin Mazda, the winner was Sonja Fisher. Congratulations to both of you!
It's OC Mazda's way of thanking our customers. Our customers have been wonderful to us and we want to make sure they know it!

http://www.mazdahb.com/freePayment

JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes 2009
Working Date Sunday, November 8, 2009
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

http://www.jdrfoc.org/?page=Home

8:30 a.m. Registration
10 a.m. Walk

A note from JDRF Orange County Chapter

"We would like to thank and congratulate everyone who participated in our 2008 Walk to Cure Diabetes. Because of your hard work and dedication, we are close to raising more than $1 million.
We would also like to extend a special thank you to all of our Sponsors, Team Captains and Walk day volunteers. And thank you to the Corporate Teams for your hard work and energetic persistence, bringing many new walkers into the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes Family. Our Corporate Teams collectively raised $300,000.
We also appreciate and thank the Family Teams, whose passion for finding a cure for diabetes helps bring in dollars for research year after year. Our Family Teams collectively raised $400,000. Mark your calendars! Our 2009 Walk to Cure Diabetes has a working date of Sunday, November 8, 2009, at the University of California, Irvine. Join thousands of others as we walk together to raise money and find a cure for diabetes."

Please join us in supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Reserch Foundation of Orange County. Your help is needed now, more than ever. Dust off those sneakers hiding under your bed and plan to take a walk that will make you feel better than you could ever imagine! Click onto the link and learn how a simple walk can change a life!

http://www.jdrfoc.org/?page=Home

Thank you,

Team OC Mazda

OC Register reviews our 2010 Mazda 3!

New Mazda3 Gives Plenty Of Grins
Matt Degen Register Writer

As a car reviewer, I'm supposed to find the shortcomings in the vehicles I drive and relay all the good stuff regarding engine advances, improved fuel economy and the like.
When thinking about my past week behind the wheel of the newly redesigned Mazda3, I've been at a loss to find much – if anything – negative about this compact.
For 2010, Mazda has stretched the car by about 3 inches, upgraded the interior, improved fuel economy and made available a bigger engine.
My tester was the i Touring version with an MSRP of $18,350, which falls in the middle of the car's entry-level i SV ($15,795) and top-of-the-line s Grand Touring edition ($22,250).
The Mazda 3 could still be considered a budget car, but it in no way feels cheap. The cloth interior is comfortable for up to five, the trunk can easily swallow a few suitcases, and the dashboard controls feel like they were custom-made for your hands.
Then there's the 3's peppy engines and sporty tuning. Mazda touts that all its cars have the “soul of a sports car,” and that is abundantly true with the 3.
While this is no tarmac burner, the Mazda3, even with its base 2.0-liter, 148-horsepower in-line four-cylinder engine, always felt competent. Connected to a five-speed automatic transmission with optional manual-shift, the power plant happily revved to its 6,500 rpm limit, making for 0-60 times of about eight seconds and easy passing at freeway speeds.
For those who care more for luxury, upscale items such as heated seats, leather upholstery, navigation system, rain-sensing wipers and xenon headlamps are available.
Like the 2.5-liter engine, the 2.0 for this new model year has been made more fuel-efficient by calibrating the engine and decreasing drag. The result is an MPG rating of 24/33.
So what's not to like about the Mazda3? I'm still searching. Perhaps the biggest issue buyers will have is with the new front grille, which Mazda said is “purposely polarizing” with its smiling fascia.
I'm still undecided on that part. But the rest of the Mazda3 has left me with nothing but grins.

http://headlines.ocregister.com/articles/engine-31946-mazda3-car.html


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Pictures of HB Mazda's Ribbon Cutting and our first fundraiser...The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life, held in Huntington Beach on June 13

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Relay For Life fundraiser!

We held our first major fundraiser of the year in our new Huntington Beach Mazda store!

The event was a mixer hosted by Jody Robinson and Marlo Morrison of HB Magazine. http://www.hbmagazine.net/

5901 Warner Ave, Suite 321

HB, 92649

714.596.6611

Jody and Marlo have been amazing first friends to the crew at Huntington Beach Mazda and just wouldn't let us be bogged down during construction. With their support, the mixer/fundraiser was a huge success!

With the generous donations of time and fabulous products from local buisness owners in Huntington Beach, all coming together to make this event truly successful, we thought it important to share with our readers just who these incrediable folks are and how to reach them. They are all listed to the right.

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