Come to Canada, we still sell the GS with a manual.

Do you sit behind yourself often when you drive? I kid, I kid... :)

As far as I know, Ford only offer 3 - Mustang, Focus (lower trims & ST) and Fiesta. Not a lot of choice if you ask me.

The loudest mouths tend to be the ones most heard, thus are the representation of their brand.

This isn’t all that surprising, but for me it is less a matter of trust and more a matter of control. I like driving, and even in the most stagnent of traffic wouldn’t want to relinquish control of the car. This isn’t a case of not trusting an autonomous car - frankly I would trust them as much, if not more than most…

More countries need to consider (and follow through with) banning Trump from setting foot in their borders. I think I might write a letter to Justin to suggest Canada do the same. The only “dangerous precident” it will set is that logical countries don’t want to put up with wigged idiots (.... hmm, I guess that means…

I know sales of the previous gen car weren’t great, but when I spoke with a guy at the Mazda stand last February, he said the car was getting a lot of positive response from people. And since word didn’t come down that they weren’t going ahead with sales until late fall, I have to imagine someone (Toyota) felt Mazda…

I thought I had read they were either introducing a new platform for the car or it was a modified version of the Fusion/MKZ platform.

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I conceded that for inputting navigation information, using a touch-screen (or voice-command) are really the best options. That said (and as pretty much every manufacturer states in it’s owner’s manuals) all that inputting for NAV should be done while parked, not driving.…

The truth is, touch screens are here to stay, not much my griping about it will change that. I don’t know what my next car will be, but after ensuring it is a manual, the next item will be ease of use of controls.

By your own admission, you’re doing the exact same thing on the touch screen, which likely has even more menu/options to cycle through, and you HAVE to look at the screen to do all that. Kind of distracting while driving. If you’re watching the road, you maybe accidentally hit the wrong app, or swipe the wrong menu or…

Touch screen phones and touch-screen audio/HVAC controls aren’t exactly in the same wheelhouse. For the latter, buttons/knobs will win every time. I can see the advantage when programming a destination for the NAV (which could be voice controlled too) but while parked. I can’t think of any other features in a car that…

From what I understand (I haven’t spoken with Mazda directly about this yet), the reversal of selling the 2 hatch is fairly recent. As of last March, it was slated for introduction for last summer, and they had pre-production cars at the Toronto Auto Show that anyone could climb around in. To go to all the trouble to…

I dunno, I have my gauges with the dimmer all the way down on my Mazda6 as I find any brighter at night to be distracting, and my eye doesn’t have to adjust when I look at them in the dark.

So in 30 years, we’ve gone from this:

Why does the information in the dials need to be digital? What is gained by this other than “ooooooo” factor? Worse, this promotes all the idiots I see at 9pm driving with only their DRLs and nothing else because - “hey, I can sort of see ahead and I can read my gauges, so what’s the issue”? I find this cluster as…

This so much. Why do you need so many screens. Touch screens are terrible for accessing things if you can’t look at them (which would be when you’re driving....). Having to use a touch screen vs pushing a physcial button or turn a physical knob is far easier to do without having to take your eyes off the road. You…

I’ve heard this before, but it doesn’t make sense. The iM is a class larger (as it is Corolla based thus Mazda3 competitor) so the nearest Toyota hatch equivalent is the Yaris (which as I mentioned above, the sedan is called up here in Canada).

Sadly, the 2 isn’t coming to Canada now either. Thanks whoever made THAT decision. I could understand why Toyota wouldn’t want Mazda to bring a 2 sedan to the market, because why buy the ugly sister, but it doesn’t make any sense to not bring the hatch over. Seems kind of dumb on Mazda’s part.

A couple other people have mentioned how they found the Camry a lot cheaper than the others - I guess a lot of Toyota dealers are willing to through more cash on the hood for them than others (surprising given how well they sell). I don’t disagree about the Altima - Nissan has really slid down in recent years, not…