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oh and as an owner of a non turbo it only feels under powered... when you compare it to the turbo. Mazda transmission are excellent and meant to be driven,. Drive it like it (don't be afraid to floor it) should be and you won't miss a turbo.
Bought a 2019 in, well, 2019, after driving an Outback since 2011. The CX5 is far more refined yet fun to drive, although the Outback isn’t big on either anyway. For our multi state road trip pre-pandemic, it was mostly a comfortable yet perky little performer. The entertainment system is counterintuitive, esp. the radio, but it sounds terrific with the Bose sound system. It’s got CarPlay which is pretty good.
It also has pretty much all the safety stuff— lane departure, blind spot detection, parking lot warnings for cross traffic and pedestrians.
Just rolled over 10k miles, first car in a long time that I didn’t put 20-35k/year from commuting, but between retirement then unretirement but working from home explains all that.
I was considering a CX-30 but wasn't enthralled with it. The back seat is a bit of a dealbreaker. I don't think my young nephews could fit back there let alone an adult. Something got me looking at the Mazda fleet online again and I decided to look at a CX-5 and loved it. I think I'm going to buy it. This will be my first experience with a Mazda.
Backing up, I bought a CX-5 in July and loved it but after driving it awhile, I've noticed a few things I don't like. I don't like the Infotainment controls. Not user friendly at all and very time consuming to find things on it. Just to change a radio station, you have to make at least 4 or 5 manual changes to find the radio station where on my old car all I had to do was punch a button. It's just very very cumbersome. I couldn't figure out how to change the clock and couldn't even find it in the owner manual. Clock isn't under "C" in the index! So frustrating! It shouldn't be that hard to figure out how to change the clock.
I also don't like the way the transmission shifts, especially at slower speeds. It's a jerky ride. It's not smooth. If I take my foot off the accelerator, my old car used to coast along smoothly without losing power. This car doesn't do that. The car doesn't coast. It immediately slows down and loses power which forces me to hit the accelerator again. The car then jerks forward, then I try to slow down by taking my foot off the accelerator...and so forth. Not sure I'm explaining it properly but I don't like it.
Backing up, I bought a CX-5 in July and loved it but after driving it awhile, I've noticed a few things I don't like. I don't like the Infotainment controls. Not user friendly at all and very time consuming to find things on it. Just to change a radio station, you have to make at least 4 or 5 manual changes to find the radio station where on my old car all I had to do was punch a button. It's just very very cumbersome. I couldn't figure out how to change the clock and couldn't even find it in the owner manual. Clock isn't under "C" in the index! So frustrating! It shouldn't be that hard to figure out how to change the clock.
I also don't like the way the transmission shifts, especially at slower speeds. It's a jerky ride. It's not smooth. If I take my foot off the accelerator, my old car used to coast along smoothly without losing power. This car doesn't do that. The car doesn't coast. It immediately slows down and loses power which forces me to hit the accelerator again. The car then jerks forward, then I try to slow down by taking my foot off the accelerator...and so forth. Not sure I'm explaining it properly but I don't like it.
What was the car you had before that shifted better?
Mazda's are great cars. I started with a '91 Protege, my first new car.
Mazda Protege is also known as Mazda Familia in Japan. A much better name for a car. I'm trying to imagine a Japanese father doing his best Vito Corleone impersonation to get his family together to get in the car, and his teenage daughter rolling her eyes in annoyance.
I was considering a CX-30 but wasn't enthralled with it. The back seat is a bit of a dealbreaker. I don't think my young nephews could fit back there let alone an adult. Something got me looking at the Mazda fleet online again and I decided to look at a CX-5 and loved it. I think I'm going to buy it. This will be my first experience with a Mazda.
Roughly half the vehicles that Mazda sells in the US are the CX-5.
In first 6 months of 2021 sales:
88,113 Mazda CX-5 - five seat SUV
28,899 Mazda CX-30 - subcompact SUV
17,575 Mazda CX-9 - 7/8 passenger SUV
25,826 Mazda3 compact car
6,600 Mazda MX-5 Miata sports car
...
12,316 Mazda6 mid-size car (discontinued for 2022 model year)
5,314 Mazda CX-3 (discontinued for 2022 model year)
60 Mazda5 (just leftovers)
The MX-30 introduced for next year will be an electric model similar in size to the CX-30
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