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- RDX Aspec Adv.
You're right. I can't be enjoying a CX-5D, live traffic, Android auto, etc. and it's reduced me to this.
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You're right. I can't be enjoying a CX-5D, live traffic, Android auto, etc. and it's reduced me to this.
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- State of Jefferson
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- 2017 CX-5 GT AWD+
First world problems. Why don't you just go buy something else and set yourself free?!
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- RDX Aspec Adv.
Because my CX5 lost value so fast that I just can't stomach the negative equity. Also, it's great basic transportation that has been reliable, and that can't really be overlooked. I am hoping to pay it off while it's in good mechanical stead, and use it as my beater for when bad weather comes along, etc. I miss owning a beater/fun-car combo.
Ok.
Somehow I don't think any Mazda executive are loosing any sleep over not being able to give USA/Canada the diesel.
They have the rest of the world to sell the diesel which they are doing. So the majority of places they deliver and they are probably satisfied with that
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- State of Jefferson
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- 2017 CX-5 GT AWD+
Oh, I was getting the impression that you loathed the damn thing. Great, reliable-- sounds good. Is it a 2015?
You know instant depreciation is the name of the new car game, right? ALL cars, the instant you drive them off the lot. Can't blame Mazda for that.
No use hating the car [or the company] because the secondary market for it isn't as rich as you'd like. It doesn't do any good, and makes you unhappy. You're right to hold onto it, and eventually you'll get your money's worth out of it and have your fun/beater. Now it can just be fun, if you let it. Hope your good luck with it will continue.
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- RDX Aspec Adv.
No, I certainly don't loath it at all. It's just that my only reason to like it, is that I don't have a distinct reason not to like it. It's boring. It's slow. It looks "meh". It has late 90's features at best.
But it's reliable, cheap to maintain, and the AWD system is okay.
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- 2022 2.5GT
You really were duped when you bought your car. How could you have been so careless to buy such a slow car with bland looks and knowing full well after doing the homework I know you will have done it would depreciate at a rate worse than anything else on the market. You’re even the worst salesman’s dream.
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- RDX Aspec Adv.
On the other end of the spectrum is the fact that it's done everything I bought it for, 100%. The only thing I'm irritated over is the depreciation. THAT SAID, in the last half year and 25K miles, it seems to have held steady in value, as the dealer offered me 10-13K depending on condition, and last time they looked at it, offered around 13.5K, IIRC, so it's now seeming to have levelled off. I hope. They told me up to 100K miles, it would be pretty well level now. Supposedly. If so, not shabby, but man the 2 year mark
Maybe the '17 redesign was what did it. I dunno.
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- 2021 CX-9 Sig
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- 2021 CX-5 GT
Yeah, the tax thing never works out. In South Carolina, which gave Boeing a huge tax break and invested in all this infrastructure, someone did the math and if Boeing continued to employee all the people and the economic impact of those people continue at the current growth (with 3% extra thrown in) the state would break even in about 230 years.
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- RDX Aspec Adv.
I dunno, I'm pretty happy with my $2K a year less taxes, personally. Also got a $6/hr raise, dunno how much or how little that was a result though.
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- 2014 QX70 AWD
I live in Bath, ME, and Bath Iron Works (the naval shipyard) is constantly whining for more and more tax breaks, despite the fact the parent company (general dynamics) continues to rake in billions. I'm sick of subsidizing them, while our city's infrastructure crumbles, not only from general use, but from the thousands of their workers who commute into our city daily.
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- State of Jefferson
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- 2017 CX-5 GT AWD+
Makes perfect sense. Happens every time. Just bad timing.
That's the trouble with tech. There's always something "better" the next year, and we wind up holding the bag.
The price of progress.
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- 2021 CX-9 Sig
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- 2021 CX-5 GT
Sometimes, the whole thing goes bust. In Delaware, they invested 4 billion to get Astra Zeneca to come. Delaware built new roads, changed other roads, and even closed a park to give them room and 5 years later, Astra Zeneca closed the plant.
For some reason people equate 'tax credit' with a state giving a company money. The money doesn't belong to the state. If a company doesn't set up shop in a state, there are zero taxes going to the state to begin with. A tax credit on future earning is merely letting those who earn the money, keep more of it. The employees of the new plant will have their taxes go into the community as well as the money they will will spend there
How dare you try to get this thread back on topic.
Nowadays people that dislike something try to influence others to think the same way. Design and looks are personal.
I love my CX5 but I would drool over a older Toyota Land Cruiser. Indestructible and reliable.
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- State of Jefferson
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- 2017 CX-5 GT AWD+
I think what he meant was the demand for the 2nd gen killed the demand for used gen 1s.
No doubt it did, but now the market for them has stabilized a bit.
That is normal.
