Mazda 6 Hatch, GH
The keen driver's choice in a dull class, let down by a body that rusts earlier than a Japanese car should and by a pair of difficult diesels.
Overview
The GH is the hatchback Mazda 6, built 2007–2012 and facelifted in 2010. 4 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €800–€4,300, and 2 of the 4 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The cheapest way in is the 2.0 MZR-CD RF7J from €1,150, while the 2.0 MZR20 is the lowest-risk engine at €1,450, so which engine you buy matters more here than which year. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.
Mazda 6 hatchback (GH) · photo Mazda 6 GH Sport Dynamic Front by Thomas doerfer · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Body style | hatchback | Production | 2007–2012 |
| Platform siblings | GH Estate wagon | Facelift (LCI) | 2010 |
Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 2007–2009
The 4 variants sold before the 2010 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 MZR-CD | RF7J | diesel | 2007–2009 | 140 PS | 330 Nm | R5 | 4 | €800–€2,450 | €1,150 | Avoid |
| 2.0 | MZR20 | petrol | 2007–2009 | 147 PS | 184 Nm | R2 | 1 | €1,000–€3,150 | €1,450 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 2.2 MZR-CD | R2AA | diesel | 2009–2009 | 163 PS | 360 Nm | R4 | 4 | €1,300–€3,950 | €1,800 | Caution |
| 2.5 | MZR25 | petrol | 2007–2009 | 170 PS | 226 Nm | R2 | 1 | €1,200–€3,650 | €1,700 | Buy |
Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 2010–2012
The 4 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.
4 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.
| Badge↕ | Engine | Fuel | Years↕ | Power↑ | Torque↕ | Risk↕ | Issues | Price band↕ | Good buy↕ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 MZR-CD | RF7J | diesel | 2010–2010 | 140 PS | 330 Nm | R5 | 4 | €900–€2,650 | €1,250 | Avoid |
| 2.0 | MZR20 | petrol | 2010–2012 | 147 PS | 184 Nm | R2 | 1 | €1,100–€3,400 | €1,550 | Buy w/ conditions |
| 2.2 MZR-CD | R2AA | diesel | 2010–2012 | 163 PS | 360 Nm | R4 | 4 | €1,400–€4,300 | €1,950 | Caution |
| 2.5 | MZR25 | petrol | 2010–2012 | 170 PS | 226 Nm | R2 | 1 | €1,350–€4,000 | €1,850 | Buy |
Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →
Model-year availability
Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.
| Variant | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 MZR-CD RF7J | ● | ● | ● | ◐ | ||
| 2.0 MZR20 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| 2.2 MZR-CD R2AA | ◐ | ● | ● | ● | ||
| 2.5 MZR25 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
● full year · ◐ arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2010 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.
Rating map, price against risk
Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.
Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.
Prices across the range
Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.
Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. MPS cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.
Every standard engine · cheapest first · 2.5 MZR25 highlighted as best value
at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile
Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these
Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.
Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 4 times: MPS cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.
Buying summary
Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.
Buy the petrol. The 2.0 and 2.5 MZR are simple, chain-driven and durable, and they avoid everything that goes wrong with the diesels. Avoid the 2.0 MZR-CD, which had such poor particulate-filter behaviour and injector-seal trouble that Mazda replaced it mid-generation. The 2.2 is better but not clean, with injector and timing-chain wear on its record. Check the arches and sills on every car, because corrosion is the fault that ends these.
Cheapest and dearest in this chassis
The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.
Lowest entry price
2.0 MZR-CD RF7J : from €800, risk 5
2.0 MZR20 : from €1,000, risk 2
2.5 MZR25 : from €1,200, risk 2
Lowest risk
2.0 MZR20 : risk 2, good buy at €1,450
2.5 MZR25 : risk 2, good buy at €1,700
2.2 MZR-CD R2AA : risk 4, good buy at €1,800