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Road Test: 2012 Mazda5

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  • @davidhalifax Yeah, I like both designs; previous and current. I like however the current gen gauge pod better as well as larger 2.5L engine. Mazda5 is an ingenious design, and I just tinted the rear windows 5% VLT along with Dynamats. Now it feels and drive like a $40K+ car.

  • @JohnFHendry MazdaSpeed3 is an uncomfortable to drive as a daily car. I had the Speed3, yes, there's power, and yes, it handles like a Corvette, but missing that refinement. I'll take the Mazda5 GT for simple fact that it handles like a VW, and has power to boot, and you can fold the 50/50 rear seat as well as middle row seat and sleep two adults comfortably, which is something I am looking forward to when I do my second X-country driving in a few years.

  • @JohnFHendry I recently added extra ground wire from throttle body housing to factory grounding screw, and now, it drives and feel like a completely different car. Something the Mazda engineers overlooked with throttle-by-wire setup.

  • @davidhalifax Actually, I like this design better than the previous gen. It only took a few days to actually start liking it.

  • @greigorypparker Road noise is like any other car, but the factory tires are indeed noisy. I'd probably be putting on either Michelin Pilots or Yokohama AVID's when these wear out. Now for wind noise: that's the problem. A lot of wind noise during highway cruise. It's probably because the sheetmetal around the sunroof and A-pillars. I wound up Dynamatting the whole car. Now the car is quiet like an expensive luxury car.

  • "do it right" IMTS Looking at options to get more power as loaded it's just too slow.

  • When you compare it to Mazdaspeed3 you see they should add a real sports model and could do it as easy as I post this. Good luck trying to do "right" yourself.

  • It's lovely .. I have one

    :D

  • @kc2zxl For me, manual, power slide out doors, and Navigation option. How hard can that be?

  • @kc2zxl Sadly, this is probably their thoughts exactly, based on previous attempts by other manufacturers to promote the idea of 'space wagons' (Nissan Axxess, anyone?) No, we have Caravans/Odysseys/Siennas that rule the minivan road here, though most families would be fine with a 5 or something 5-like for their needs--or as the second car to their minivan. But I do believe that the US GT SHOULD have, at least, had electric sliding doors as standard.

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