If you’re in the market for a supermini/city car, and you want to go ahead and buy one of these cars in Europe, then you’re spoiled for choice. The Mazda 2 is still one of those options, but the Ford Fiesta-based model will soon be replaced by a much more attractive model that may turn the segment on its head.

Expected to mirror the design of the Hazumi concept, the production-spec Mazda 2 hatch is set for its debut sometime this year, with bold Kodo styling and SKYACTIV technology; if it’s comparable to other cars in its class in the same way the larger 3 and 6 are, then the establishment had better watch out.

It’s still probably a few months shy of being revealed, though, and the closest thing we have to it currently are these spyshots and the rendering posted after the virtual jump.

By Andrei Nedelea

Renders by Designrm

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