Earlier today, Josh Byrnes sent me an interesting email pointing me towards to a story from Car Advice titled "Mazda 3 rendering sparks debate", in which there was a picture of the next generation Mazda3. The image, credited to Mazda North America, was from Bank of America Merrill Lynch's annual "Car Wars" analysis, which according to a CNN Money report, is "Published each May for some two decades" and "provides a glimpse into the future of the U.S. auto business."
Carscoops regulars will no doubt recognize the picture as a rendering from our own Josh Byrnes – sans Carscoops' watermarks that someone crudely removed, without our permission, of course. Besides Car Advice, the story was also posted on several other news and magazine websites, including Motor Trend, Autoweek, Automobile magazine.
After a Motor Trend reader left a couple of comments on the page informing them of the true source of the rendering, including this one, "JEEEEEEZ automobilemag staff - get your sources straight. This is the same 'rendered' image 1st posted on the carscoops site back in March http://www.carscoops.com/2013/03/future-cars-2014-mazda3-hatchback-goes.html", the publication posted the following update:
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