Comments on: Battle of the Exes: 2009 Mazda Mazda5 Grand Touring

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:10:22 +0000

A4- What do you mean? This is exactly that. a Mazda3 based minivan.

By: Borat

Borat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:47:17 +0000

What do learn from this kids? Don’t spend much time time in the garage with old lavender cars, otherwise needy cat will find more fitting Mr. Fix It

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:34:40 +0000

LLN, I skipped this article about 30% thru because, really, reading the bickering of two boring ex-spouses with no sense of humor who dont seem to know a lot about vehicles is pretty much a waste of time – even more so than reading the posts on this blog. At least the posters have humor and personality.

By: Gundy

Gundy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:52:22 +0000

Europe gets all the good stuff..

By: kitko

kitko — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:56:25 +0000

What’s that…?
“A full load of passengers and a boatload of stuff wouldn’t be passing much on the highway.”

You guys CAN’T drive?

I have a 1.6 liter Mazda3 with a 4-speed box and 106 hp. I have NO problems driving on a German unrestricted autobahn constantly between 130-150 km/h (81-94 mph) topping 170 (106) few times. And that’s GPS speed, not speedo that went over 180. I had no problem joining in, or overtaking or just keeping up.

That was two people and a week’s luggage in a car with much less power (HP and torque-wise) on a proper highway.

BTW, any reason why ALL euro-specced Mazda5 have traction and stability control as standard while it’s not even an option in the US?

By: A4

A4 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:48:07 +0000

that would have made sense if the mazda3 was a minivan, but this is a mazda5.

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:27:47 +0000

Ha! That’s funny.

A minute of quick spell checking could have made this a bit easier to read, LLN. I’ve always really liked the Mazda3, and sales reflect that. It’s been doing fairly well, and increasingly better.

It puts the Mini back in “Minivan”, since most of the current offerings are about the size of Full-sized vans.

Soon, there will be a Chevrolet badged 7-passenger mpv, and the Ford S-Max may be coming across the pond. Seeing where gas prices are going, that’d be nice.

By: A4

A4 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:48:45 +0000

this is a cruel manipulation of a divorce if ive ever seen one