We've had our white GT AWD for nearly 1,000 miles now -- Love 97 percent of it and strangers in parking lots have approached a half-dozen times to ask about eye-catching vehicle. My favorites: Ease (and fun) of handling...comfort...fuel efficiency...and cargo space.
We went to Costco this week and heaped two carts full of stuff (and put stuff on bottom of carts, too), and my clever hubby fit everything into the vehicle -- I had to ride in back seat, but no biggie. I wish I had a photo....but the larger items included a 10,000 BTU portable air conditioner, 7-foot magnolia tree (real, not fake), jumbo packs of Bounty paper towels and Charmin and solar lighting for front yard...and $650-worth of groceries. I forgot to mention in original post the other unexpected thing -- We forgot my mom's wheelchair was in the back (folding)....so, in addition to Costco loot, a full-size folding wheel chair was also crammed in
Here's what I would change:
a)deeper sun roof
b)move clock higher on console
c)swap orange lights on console to something soothing and modern, like blue or white
d)devote more of speedometer to 0-80 mph....half of the dial is wasted for most folks
Oh, one other nit particular to our vehicle: The right-side plug on our bumper apparently popped out ... dealer is replacing for free, but part had to be ordered. Dealer suspected the plug wasn't put in correctly.
By the way, our dealer -- Park Mazda of Wooster (OH) -- has been great to deal with, from stumbling across them at the Cleveland auto show....to online negotiating (we ended up at dealer invoice)...to following up after purchase. Like I said, this is our first Mazda, so we've never used this dealer before...and sort of wonder if this is representative of Mazda. There was no (obvious) pressure from saleswoman (Sam)...and thorough and informative presentation upon delivery....and Park didn't paint its logo onto our bumper (we had planned to asked them not to...forgot about it...and were pleasantly surprised when we picked it up and saw that Park had added nothing but a license plate holder).
