Nissan to sell Mazda Premacy van in May
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markuszoom5
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Nissan re-badges Mazda5 and sells it as Nissan Lafesta Highway Star in Japan...super
Here is the link:
http://wot.motortrend.com/look-fami...sta-highway-star-facelifted-mazda5-87883.html
Here is the link:
http://wot.motortrend.com/look-fami...sta-highway-star-facelifted-mazda5-87883.html
I love Nagare with all its stylish touches.id rather have that nissan version then the current 5.
markuszoom5
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Yea...same here
I like my 2010 MZ5. It might look like a minivan and boring...but with the side skirts and 17" wheels and the rear spoiler it still looks sportier than a souped up sienna. But the 2012 just looks like mazda was advertising their ability to bend sheet metal and not designing a car.
I like my 2010 MZ5. It might look like a minivan and boring...but with the side skirts and 17" wheels and the rear spoiler it still looks sportier than a souped up sienna. But the 2012 just looks like mazda was advertising their ability to bend sheet metal and not designing a car.
Exactly. Mazda has gone off the rails with their styling lately and they need to reel it back in ......fast!
I used to think the 2012 was overly done, but somehow I grew to like Nagare a lot. Most cars on the road have plain door panels - they look boring and unimaginative to me now. And I think the Nissan grill is out of place in this curvy design.
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thats exactly what i meant. thats why i said the Current 5.
the earlier version in GT trim was way hot. the 2012 ruined everything that was hot about the older version. the only thing id say that actually improved with the 2012 is the interior set up. but the taillights, and stupid curves ill just never like.OldGreyMike
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Just bought a 2012 GT to replace my 2009. I dunno, the styling kind of grows on me, definitely not boring. Wife is an artist, and likes it a lot, actually. But then, I am more interested in the functionality (which is very much improved in some areas). And, once you're inside, you can't see it anyway, and I'm way too old to care what anybody else thinks about it.
I figure if they don't like it, they shouldn't look!
In any case, it looks way better than some truly ugly cars of the past (Pontiac Aztek comes to mind, and I remember the Edsel quite well).
I figure if they don't like it, they shouldn't look!
In any case, it looks way better than some truly ugly cars of the past (Pontiac Aztek comes to mind, and I remember the Edsel quite well).
Nissan's Mazda 5
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/16/nissan-offers-rebadged-mazda5-in-japan-as-lafesta-highway-star/
seems it offers auto slide doors
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/16/nissan-offers-rebadged-mazda5-in-japan-as-lafesta-highway-star/
seems it offers auto slide doors
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I like the absence of the center console aft of the shifter. Seems roomier that way, might even be able to sneak from the first row into the second that way as well.
jeffismrmom
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but the Nissan version of the 5 lacks character. If you changed the grill out and swapped the sliders for traditional doors, I'd almost think I was looking at an early-to-mid 00's Matrix; totally bland.
I'll stick w/my version..."controversial" styling and all.
I'll stick w/my version..."controversial" styling and all.
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I'm with you in that minority. Didn't really like Nagare at first, but now I love it. It's a coherent design that has character. The smiley grill looks to me more like a gaping mouth of some sea creature, and it goes with the wavy theme better than inanimate horizontal bars.
I'm with you in that minority. Didn't really like Nagare at first, but now I love it. It's a coherent design that has character. The smiley grill looks to me more like a gaping mouth of some sea creature, and it goes with the wavy theme better than inanimate horizontal bars.
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The fact that we own the only Mazda to ever use the Nagare styling makes us cooler as well
Took the 5 downtown Saturday. Only a few cars I have driven got as many stares and puzzled looks from pedestrians and fellow garage parkers. I would say 80% favorable, 20% not so much. I was expecting 50/50.
Too bad there's slim to no chance of Nissan selling it over here.
dieseldriver
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I politely disagree. I read literature that the wavy design mimicing a flowing water actually improves upon drag coefficient than without it. It was purposefully designed, not just something that the designers/engineers decided to do in an ad hoc fashion.
