My nod goes to Mazda for having an actual transmission rather than a cvt 

Yeah, aren’t we all constantly bitching about the lack of small pickups on here?

I both suspect and hope we will never return to the days of dumping airplane exhaust into the atmosphere like we have over the past few decades, no matter how much time I spent staring at $50 cross-country flights the other week.

It was also like a pre-BRZ. in terms of styling for me. (I feel like the styling of the RX8 aged much better than the 350z of its era).

Mazda made one of the greatest, and under appreciated, V6's ever.

My Mazda Ownership Experience:

I like that, like the other leaked emails, they seem more upset about the language than anything else.

A change in corporate culture from engineer-driven to accounting-driven.

Boomers put that stuff in emails.

“These communications do not reflect the company we are”

Yeah. Rule number one of corporate communication is to leave no embarrassing paper trail.

Pretty sure it would be even slower with a manual.

The store is my biggest complaint. Like holy molly it’s just endless scrolling. God forbid you accidentally leave the list you’re scrolling cuz it won’t remember where you were when you go back!

The switch menu is easily the worse of the 3, and that’s pretty well a universal opinion. However, I don’t think it’s bad or even annoying. The eShop however is pretty trash.

Why the multiple racist shithead throwaway lines? Scumbag.

A Skyactiv-X inline-6?!?!?

It’s fine.

5 years later

Shit, I’m in my mid-40s and the largest vehicle I’ve ever owned was a B5 A4. When I need to haul something, I rent a pick-up from Enterprise, like a sensible person.  Trucks and other heavy vehicles are an absolute bore to drive.  

In the case of Ford, the problem was there was too much overlap between the Fusion and Taurus... as well as too much overlap between the Fiesta and Focus.