Mazda Sucks

I bought a 2008 Mazda 3i sedan in 11/2007 as a replacement for my totaled 1999 Toyota Corolla. I've hated it and regretted my decision within a week of purchasing it. (Mostly my mistake, given that I rented it for a weekend before purchasing, although I don't know how I could have handled it differently because I never had another car with the instrument visibility problem, and that includes a number of rental cars in addition to my previous Sentra and Corolla.)

In 8/2010, I gave up and replaced the Mazda3 with a 2010 Hyundai Elantra SE.

Despite my anger and annoyance, the Mazda3 actually is a pretty good car that handles well and has been reliable (which is why I wasn't in a huge hurry to replace it), I just have a lot of little problems with it plus one very big problem that makes me feel unsafe. Because I never got any response from Mazda, I figure I might as well vent my spleen in public, listing my issues roughly in descending order of irritation:

Speedometer is unreadable in low light (dawn/dusk/heavy overcast -- it uses orange light through the numbers); this is what makes the Mazda unsafe for me
Seat is uncomfortable for long drives
Low MPG for a small car (I usually got 25-27mpg with a mixture of freeway and street driving)
Turning temperature to low automatically turns on A/C and air recirculation (in the mild temperatures in the SF Bay Area, it's often just barely cold enough to turn up the heater a bit in the morning and then turn the heat off)
Gas tank filler on wrong side of car (passenger side) -- even after three years, I still kept forgetting
Fan has four settings -- only "2" is really usable because "1" has minimal airflow and both "3" and "4" sound like a jet engine taking off
Small trunk
Rear seat uncomfortable and difficult to get into (to be fair, this is true of most small cars)
Using defrost airflow automatically turns on A/C and prohibits air recirculation (annoying on cold, dry mornings)
Unheated side mirrors (granted most cheaper cars don't have that, but my Elantra has it as a standard feature)
Radio/temperature display washed out in bright daylight
Lack of dashboard cubby space
Dashboard clock is blocked by hand in driving position
Key remote doesn't open trunk
Trunk lid difficult to close
Seventy-five dollars for a spare key