We will get into this for sure. I have a friend who has a current Mazda6 manual and I’m hoping to be able to do a direct comparo.

Assuming you will be driving a Signature trim, I’m interested how it acts as a luxury car. One of the auto magazines (I believe motor trend) just ran an interesting story comparing loaded mainstream cars to base luxury cars. The mainstream cars won 3 of 4, with the CX5 beating out the Lexus NX handily. I’m curious how…

While I also laughed, I also know exactly what her sister was referring to. I can think of some old school cars where the wheel would whip around very quickly after a turn. I do not understand or know how to explain the phenomenon.

There is only one Animal Style:

It is wrong but the feeling you are having is comeuppance bc sticking your arm inside of an active race track is dumb

I’m sorry, but pop-up headlamps, a hatchback, a manual, and all for only $5k?

Anyone who votes CP should leave Jalopnik forever.

wut

Jerry! nice to see you on here buddy lol, completely agree with your assessment. I’d rather buy former FSAE cars for that kind of $$$

I wouldn’t call anything with with the brake bleeders mounted upside down “well thought out”

This is 100% false, and has been false for quite some time.

Mazda isn’t whining about low sedan sales, but they are pushing more resources towards the crossover/suv side of things (who can blame them?); but unlike Ford they are not abandoning the sedans and small cars. I think Mazda is in a tough spot since they are still relatively small, so they need as much volume as they…

Fiesta and Taurus did not make much sense to keep. I would have killed them in the US too. But Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai/Kia sell so many midsize and compact cars. Ford made some decent headway with outgoing Focus and Fusion. It just seems like they are giving their market share to the competitors in that…

This is a solid point. Once you lose market share, it is a very expensive proposition to gain it back. I can see trimming models (Taurus, Fiesta, C-Max), but completely abandoning traditional cars seems like it will alienate a whole lot of people that could have become repeat buyers of more profitable models.

There’s the other fact that the Taurus and Fusion were about the same side and cannibalizing each others sales.

I’ll say it. I think this is a terrible idea.

Hey. Are you married to my wife?!?!

I feel your pain. When I complain to my wife about her van being a trashcan she tries to blame it on the kids (they are not helping, but her cars have always been trashy). The kids know better, because they don’t make a mess in my vehicle. My wife just uses the defense of ‘oh I am having to shuttle them around and…

“+10 db is PERCEIVED to be a volume twice as loud. -5 db is HALF as loud. Yes the math is illogical.”