Mazda CX50, the Good, Bad and the Ugly...let me hear it.

RoboV

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I bought a Blue CX-5 select last Tuesday.

It has a smoother and less noisy ride, as expected, than my 2008 Frontier, which I didn't trade in. The Frontier has a manual transmission, I'm just not ready to get rid of it yet.

From what little I've driven the car I am happy with the purchase.

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I looked at the blue this week. No thrill up my leg and the Boss Lady said it was too dark. Something like the Subaru WRX blue might have worked.I could have gotten the white,but held out for the red. Just waiting for delivery from Dallas area.

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Mazda's Soul Red is the best looking red car paint color on the market, hands down.

I can't even believe that there would be any disagreement on that...it is a beautiful shade

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If you think waiting for your new firearm to arrive at the FFL, or waiting for the AD to call and announce the arrival of "The Watch" or the Amazon driver to get to your front door is PAINFUL, Well Bunky, let me tell you! Someone please get me out of this piece of ship Enterprise Rental that can't get out of it own way with a CVT. I will say that the manufacturer of this car, back in the 80s made some pretty highly rated performance cars, this ain't one of them.

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I drove a CX5 as a rental for nearly a month while the Jeep was at the dealership. Overall I really liked it with the exception of two things-

You can't use the screen as a touch screen while in motion. The knob thing you can probably get used to but I don't want to honestly.

The driver assist systems feel a generation behind the other stuff. Blind spot monitoring triggers if you drive near a wall, adaptive cruise is a bit clunky. But honestly none of that is enough to keep me from seriously looking at one if I were in the market for a small SUV.

What year? I just got my second daughter a CX-5, her older sister also got a cx-5. After test driving them, I loved them, great driving car and excellent value for the money. There is a menu item a little buried in the touchscreen,that once a phone is connected, you scroll into the settings under car play or something and check the box that says "allow touchscreen while driving". Extremely simple and took me like 1 minute to get it to work. There are many youtube videos on it.

I watched the same ones and couldn't get it to go in CarPlay which is the only way I use in-car screens really. It was a brand new 2025.

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I watched the same ones and couldn't get it to go in CarPlay which is the only way I use in-car screens really. It was a brand new 2025.

Yeah it's not very intuitive, you have to plug in the phone, wait for the side of the screen to show android car up and apple car play down, then select the down menu with the joystick, then go into settings etc. I wouldn't expect someone to figure it out in a rental. It took me about 10 minutes of fiddling with the thing to get it to work.

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I'm going to find out about Android Auto, touch screens and whatnot tomorrow! Got the call this afternoon. Car is in from Texas. 11:00am is the magic hour.

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Love Mazda's Soul Red Paint? So Do Mazda's Designers - The deep, smooth color so associated with Mazda's cars is so important to the brand that the process has its own name, Takuminuri.

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Sweet. Mazda's Soul Red is the best looking red car paint color on the market, hands down.

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I watched the same ones and couldn't get it to go in CarPlay which is the only way I use in-car screens really. It was a brand new 2025.

When I got my 2023, I plugged my phone in and the phone asks if I wanted to use CarPlay before it became available. Any new iPhone asks the same question on my car. After that, if CarPlay doesn't come up, I just move the control knob to the right and I'm in.

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It is too freaking hot to take good pictures and to sit in the car and do the settings. I do have Android Auto and the route does show up on the HUD. Also set up for touch screen.

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Looks good! Curious -- how's the legroom in the driver seat? I have a 36 1/2" inseam, so most vehicles won't be comfortable for me.

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I am 6' 1" and moved the seat forward to feel more comfortable. Plenty of legroom and easy to enter without having to contort myself. Try one on for size. My 4'10" wife can raise the passenger seat high enough to see comfortably.

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Mazda does make some nice looking vehicles

That’s one of the things I really like about them as they make something that still looks pretty distinctive unlike all the other car makers where you couldn’t tell one of their vehicles from any other of a half dozen other makers, they all look like they were designed by the same team.

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I am 6' 1" and moved the seat forward to feel more comfortable. Plenty of legroom and easy to enter without having to contort myself. Try one on for size. My 4'10" wife can raise the passenger seat high enough to see comfortably.

The CX5/50 really is the sweet spot of their CSUV lineup.

The CX-30 is smaller, based on the Mazda3 chassis, but almost a "hot hatch" because it uses the same turbo engine. What you give up is ease of entry and a flat loading floor at the hatch...but it is definately a Zoom-Zoom Mazda

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