As Mazda promised us, Mallory McMorrow's rendering that won the “2018 Mazda3 Design Challenge” is taking shape in the form of a life-size clay model at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show. According to Mazda, the clay model will be finished by the time the auto show comes to a close, on Sunday, November 25. We’ll have the full story as soon as the Japanese carmaker releases pictures of the finished vehicle later on this week, but in the meantime, follow the jump and check out our image gallery of the clay model being meticulously scraped into shape by the Mazda folks. -Continued after the jump