CARMA AUTO GROUP DEALER CERTIFIED PRE-OWNEDPassed our 90-point multi-point inspection. Includes Level 1 Quality Plus Auto Protection Plan coverage and our 5-Year Maintenance Plan when purchased at our full out-the-door price.Proudly serving customers with over 22,000 vehicles sold.2017 MAZDA3 SPORT 5-DOOR 6-SPEED MANUAL 81,225 MILESDeep Crystal Blue Mica over black cloth, with the original owner's manual books. Front-wheel drive, 2.0L Skyactiv-G, and the part that matters: a genuine six-speed manual transmission. If you've been looking for one of these, you already know why you're reading this listing and you already know how few of them come up. When we ran the comparable-listing search for this exact vehicle, it returned three cars in the entire country. One owner from new, and it was serviced at the same Mazda dealership for almost its whole life. WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY GETTING 90-point Carma inspection completed before this vehicle was offered for sale. Six-speed manual transmission the reason this car exists as a listing rather than a commodity. The manual take rate on these was tiny when they were new, and a decade of attrition hasn't helped. CARFAX 1-Owner, personal-use vehicle nearly nine years with the same owner, at 9,226 miles a year against a 15,000-mile national average. Never a rental, never a fleet unit. 29 service history records, essentially all at Ocean Mazda a single franchise dealer for the life of the car. Documented along the way: rear brake pads, shoes and brakes replaced, front rotors resurfaced, battery replaced, brake fluid flushed, body control module replaced, air and cabin filters replaced, wipers replaced, tires balanced and rotated repeatedly, and oil and filter changes at consistently short intervals. Cars that get this kind of attention are usually owned by people who care about them which, on a manual-transmission car, tends to be the case. OBDII scan performed and photographed: emissions ready, zero stored or pending trouble codes. The scan photo is included in this listing's photos so you can read the results yourself instead of taking our word for it. Current Georgia state emissions passed 07/23/2026 at 81,164 miles, documented on the CARFAX. Between the state test and our own scan, this car's emissions systems have been verified twice by two different means. You're not taking anyone's word for it, including ours. No total loss, no structural damage, no airbag deployment reported, and no odometer rollback. CARFAX guarantees the title carries no salvage, junk, rebuilt, fire, flood, hail or lemon brand. Original owner's manual books included. One key is present we'd rather tell you now than let you find out at delivery. A second can be cut and programmed at a Mazda dealer or qualified locksmith. Additional service has been completed and is awaiting CARFAX reporting, expected in the coming weeks. We'll publish the itemized detail and raise the value total below once it posts. We don't put work into a total before we can point you at the record for it. REAL VALUE AND WHY THE BOOKS UNDERSTATE THIS ONEWe cross-check every vehicle against multiple independent sources rather than picking the friendliest number and on this car the sources genuinely split, so we're going to show you both sides and tell you which one we think is right.What the valuation books say. Manheim Adjusted Retail Average $12,050, J.D. Power Retail Book $12,150, Kelley Blue Book Typical Listing Price $12,520, CARFAX History-Based Retail Value $12,820. A tight cluster right around twelve and a half.What the actual market says. Current market average for this vehicle: $15,115. And the comparable-listing search which returned only three 2017 Mazda3 5-Doors nationally shows real cars with real asking prices: $12,349 at 80,940 miles, $15,998 at 95,582 miles, and $16,998 at 78,583 miles. Those are asking prices on active listings rather than sold numbers, and we'll say so plainly.Why we weight the market over the books here, and why you should too. Valuation guides are algorithms fed by volume, and volume on a 2017 Mazda3 hatchback means automatics. The manuals get blended into the same average despite being a small fraction of production and a smaller fraction of what survives. The guides have no line item for scarcity, and none for the fact that a buyer who wants a manual hatchback will not accept an automatic instead. The live listings price what the books can't see.Look at how those three cars are actually moving, too. The $12,349 example has been sitting on its lot for 99 days. The $16,998 example has been listed 21 days. When the cheapest car in a three-car national market is the one nobody is buying, that tells you where the market is really clearing and it isn't at the bottom.Weighing the live market against the books, we'd put honest retail value on this car at $15,115 $16,998. The book figures are above in full so you can see exactly what we're arguing wi