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A competition to design the 2018-model Mazda3 has been won by a female industrial design student, who also got to watch her design come to life at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The competition was held in conjunction with social networking site, Facebook. It invited designers to visualise the 2018 version of Mazda's family hatch. The winning design was hewn from clay on the Mazda stand on November 14, with Mazda's North American director of design, Franz von Holzhausen, lending a hand. The winning design, by 21-year-old Mallory McMorrow, was voted number one by most Facebook members. To enter, contestants submitted a 150-word description of their vision of the car and an optional sketch drawing. After weeks of voting, McMorrow was selected as a finalist, at which time she was paired with Mazda designer Jacques Flynn who helped bring her design to life.
