general problems of the 2003 Mazda MAZDA6

When I take my foot off the gas it stays at the same speed or it speeds up on its own. When I press on the break sometimes it feels like it's not going to stop and just keep going or it jerks forward when I stop. This happens when I am driving on the road and the cruise control is not on when this happens.

While driving home from my chardon, OH office on either Aug 5 or 6, 2009 at 35 mph my car's rpm needle started jumping and the car's "gas pressure" felt like it was hicupping. The rpm needle jumped from @2 to 4 twice, then the car started steadily accelerating in speed. The brake pedal at this time felt "hard" and the car was "fighting against my attempt to slow down" and the rpm's were still trying to accelerate. I imagine if I pushed on the brake and the gas pedal at the same time, it would simulate the way it felt. I also have a manual shift mode on my car and used it to more effectively slow down (vs using the brake) but at the same time the car was still trying to accelerate, but couldn't because I was in a lower gear/manual mode. And I remember while in manual gear 1, my car was lurching me back and forth in my seat as I drove through my neighborhood to get home, and my foot was off the gas pedal! on Aug 12th, 2009 I mentioned this event to a Mitsubishi dealer's mechanic (friend of my father) who was replacing my power steering line, he took a look at my car but said it seemed fine. My husband has been driving that car since that event, because I am afraid of it happening again. The car has not done this while my husband has been driving it. Not to sound like an oddball, but if I didn't know better I would have said my car was acting possessed, like the movie "christine". I have to think that there is some correlation to what my car did and what is going on with Toyota. My husband is an electrical engineer and he used to work for grob systems, who does engineering for multiple automobile manufacturers, and I wonder if Mazda has some same system in their automobile's as Toyota and if it was engineered by the same supplier. I would swear on a bible that this happened to me with my car. (my husband left grob to move to cleveland and marry me). It sucks having this car now, it is paid off, I'm afraid to drive it, and I don't want to sell to an innocent stranger.

When brakes are used there is a loud clicking noise. This has happened several times and when taken to the dealer was told that they could not duplicate the problem and that the brake hardware had already been replaced on this vehicle because of the grinding problem we had taken in for on several occasions previously. We had also had to take the car in 4+ times telling them that there was a problem with cold starting, getting a "we can not duplicate the problem". . . The 5th time it had to be towed because the alternator went out. This is after they sold us a $120 battery because they said that was the problem.

I had a terrible experience couple of days ago. When I was driving back home in the midnight and in the middle of nowhere, my less than 2 and half years old Mazda 6 start to make very loud annoying noise. I was scared to death at that time. Later I found out there is a manufacture defect relating to the problem that I had experienced, which Mazda has known the problem about a year ago. They even have a bulletin describe this problem and the title is '04-004/04 2003-2003 Mazda 6 -front brake judder and /or brake moan noise'. They never made any recalls on this issue and leave this risk to their customer intentionally.

On July 4th weekend it started making a clicking noise when you drive it 65mph. The dealership decided it was a defective catalytic conveter. I had to drive it 3 weeks making this noise. Then the check engine light came on. Then I got a recall for the brake system. Now it's Aug. 8 I am still in a rental car. All I want is for the dealership to take back the car, cancel the loan & go our seperate ways.