How do you find your CX-5 highway acceleration to be?

[ColoradoDriver]

CX-5 is perfectly adequate and at this point I am convinced that those complaining about it's highway power are regular granny drivers.

Why? I can't recall the thread, but there was a discussion on this forum a while back or maybe last year where it was mentioned that the car learns how you drive it. Drive it more spirited and it picks up on that and feels better for spirited driving over time. Drive it like an old lady (because some people here are misguided and don't believe in punching it) and it's going to drive like an old lady car.

I drive mine in a very spirited manner and I can say with certainty that I am often effortlessly finding myself speeding to say 85 mph in a 65 mph zone completely by accident and having to slow myself down. The car will go fast. A little more effort involved, but if you think I drove across Wyoming on I-80 any less than 90-110 MPH depending on if there were cops around or not, think again. Where I will agree with some folks is that the CX-5 loses some of the oomph it has at lower speeds when you punch it at these speeds of 75 MPH+, but it will still go fast.

As for the guy complaining about merging, learn to drive. I have never had an issue gunning the CX-5 up to the appropriate speeds to merge it. Sadly 90% of people don't know how to merge properly or how to use a highway on-ramp to get up to speed. These are the people trying to merge into oncoming 65-75 mph traffic going 45 mph because they think they need a mile to get up to speed.

Just punch it.

 

[Unobtanium]

Except that the numbers show otherwise- see below sourced C&D June2017 and C&D July2017, respectively..both loaded examples tested by the same publication within a month of each other- not bolded but another fwd win is not surprisingly 70-0 braking distance.

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door hatchback
PRICE AS TESTED: $32,955 (base price: $24,985)
DISPLACEMENT: 152 cu in, 2488 cc
POWER: 187 hp @ 6000 rpm
TORQUE: 185 lb-ft @ 3250 rpm

TRANSMISSION: 6-speed automatic with manual shifting mode

DIMENSIONS:
CURB WEIGHT: 3537 lb

C/D TEST RESULTS:
Zero to 60 mph: 7.8 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 23.8 sec
Zero to 110 mph: 32.5 sec
Rolling start, 5-60 mph: 7.9 sec
Top gear, 30-50 mph: 3.8 sec
Top gear, 50-70 mph: 5.3 sec
Standing -mile: 16.2 sec @ 86 mph
Top speed (drag limited): 130 mph
Braking, 70-0 mph: 177 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad*: 0.82 g

vs:
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, all-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door hatchback
PRICE AS TESTED: $34,380 (base price: $26,285)
DISPLACEMENT: 152 cu in, 2488 cc
POWER: 187 hp @ 6000 rpm
TORQUE: 185 lb-ft @ 4000 rpm

TRANSMISSION: 6-speed automatic with manual shifting mode

DIMENSIONS:
CURB WEIGHT: 3678 lb

C/D TEST RESULTS:
Zero to 60 mph: 8.1 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 24.2 sec
Zero to 110 mph: 31.6 sec
Rolling start, 5-60 mph: 8.5 sec
Top gear, 30-50 mph: 3.9 sec
Top gear, 50-70 mph: 5.5 sec
Standing -mile: 16.3 sec @ 85 mph
Top speed (drag limited, C/D est): 130 mph
Braking, 70-0 mph: 182 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad*: 0.82 g

I don't know what is wrong with the 2017+ models, I just know the pre-17 models. You know, the "fast" ones, lol

Zero to 60 mph: 7.6 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 22.3 sec
Rolling start, 5-60 mph: 7.9 sec
Top gear, 30-50 mph: 3.7 sec
Top gear, 50-70 mph: 5.3 sec
Standing -mile: 15.8 sec @ 87 mph

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2014-mazda-cx-5-25-awd-test-review

 

[CX-5um]

I live in a very rural area...very little traffic and nearly all 45MPH-55MPH winding roads (and some with no posted speed limit), with some excursions on the 70MPH interstate. It's feeling safe when passing on the 55MPH roads (one lane each direction) that concerns me a little, and slightly less so with being on the interstate where average speeds are 80MPH.
What is your experience?

Our 2013 2.0 155 HP is used on trips from AZ to California. 2 1/2 persons and our gear for 1 week. Constantly have to pass by slower traffic (semis, trucks, cars, ect. ) doing less than 75 in the 70mph zones. The only section where passing power is lacking is on large mountains. Otherwise on flat roads its adequate.

A 2.5 should be more than enough for you.

FYI, twisty roads going down hill I do 90mph no problem

 

[Kaps]

Our 2013 2.0 155 HP is used on trips from AZ to California. 2 1/2 persons and our gear for 1 week. Constantly have to pass by slower traffic (semis, trucks, cars, ect. ) doing less than 75 in the 70mph zones. The only section where passing power is lacking is on large mountains. Otherwise on flat roads its adequate.

A 2.5 should be more than enough for you.

FYI, twisty roads going down hill I do 90mph no problem

Mazda should borrow the hybrid tech from Rav4 and build a 2 Liter CX5 Hybrid. Give it a combined 200 hp and 225 lbft of torque - can of fix a flat with 33 avg mpg (probably due to heavier car) - most likely this will kill the Lexus NX300h sales.

 

[Monterra]

I don't know what is wrong with the 2017+ models, I just know the pre-17 models. You know, the "fast" ones, lol


https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2014-mazda-cx-5-25-awd-test-review

Don't forget a 10 minute call could save you 10% or more on your car insurance<<-you may as well have said that.
What you should have said was that I'm right- but its ok you don't need to- but you will need to order my steak- probably pretty soon too.

 

[J.R.]

Sadly 90% of people don't know how to merge properly or how to use a highway on-ramp to get up to speed. These are the people trying to merge into oncoming 65-75 mph traffic going 45 mph because they think they need a mile to get up to speed.

Just punch it.

Probably my biggest driving annoyance (gah)

 

[Xeler8ing]

(iagree) as well

 

[ColoradoDriver]

Depends what you are coming from. We do mostly highway driving and have to quickly accelerate on them merging with 75+ MPH traffic. Our 2014 just doesn*t cut it and is a dog executing this safely, meaning no one cuts you a break where I live merging! Again if your used to slow you will think its fine. I just think a great handling SUV with a smooth shifting 6 speed transmission deserves a more powerful sport trim that makes it fly. I sure hope Mazda stays away from going CVT as other than Subaru*s execution of one, they sound and feel horrible during acceration. Drive a Nissan Rouge to get my point.

I'm going to assume you don't know how to gun it.

CX-5 has not failed me on merging. I'm not saying I have NJ drivers, but I more often have to slow down from the speed I got to on on-ramps to merge which is due to other drivers being jackasses in front of me, not the CX-5, as I am up to the speed I should be to merge safely.

Assuming your on-ramp doesn't have jackasses in front of you who don't know they are supposed to get up to speed with traffic to merge (and thus mess you up, no fault of the CX-5), then the CX-5 is perfectly fine and capable.

 

[J.R.]

(iagree) as well

And then those same yahoos promptly go plant themselves over in the passing lane!

Double (gah)(gah)

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Our 2013 2.0 155 HP is used on trips from AZ to California. 2 1/2 persons and our gear for 1 week. Constantly have to pass by slower traffic (semis, trucks, cars, ect. ) doing less than 75 in the 70mph zones. The only section where passing power is lacking is on large mountains. Otherwise on flat roads its adequate.

A 2.5 should be more than enough for you.

FYI, twisty roads going down hill I do 90mph no problem

Thanks for the input, CX-5um. You know what started me on this thread was the fact that the ASL (Automatic(?) Speed Limiter) apparently was set at 70 on the test drive, so when I floored it, "Fly By Wire" got me and nothing happened.

I'm in the middle of Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, so have those twisty "paved goat paths" we call roads. But I know those of you out west giggle when we say we have mountains. I've been out your way. I understand why.

 

[7eregrine]

Having driven in both the Blue Ridge and the Rocky Mountains I can assure: they are both mountain ranges.

 

[Avoidin Deer]

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As for the guy complaining about merging, learn to drive. I have never had an issue gunning the CX-5 up to the appropriate speeds to merge it. Sadly 90% of people don't know how to merge properly or how to use a highway on-ramp to get up to speed. These are the people trying to merge into oncoming 65-75 mph traffic going 45 mph because they think they need a mile to get up to speed.

Just punch it.

I think we have all seen those folks who don't know why it's called an "acceleration ramp." It horrifies me to see people get to the end of the ramp and stop right at the entrance to the highway, so NOW they have to merge from 0 MPH. Honestly, folks who are that "white knuckle" about driving in that environment should take rural routes to their destination or let someone else drive. They are the equivalent of having a brick dropped from an overpass.

 

[ColoradoDriver]

I think we have all seen those folks who don't know why it's called an "acceleration ramp." It horrifies me to see people get to the end of the ramp and stop right at the entrance to the highway, so NOW they have to merge from 0 MPH. Honestly, folks who are that "white knuckle" about driving in that environment should take rural routes to their destination or let someone else drive. They are the equivalent of having a brick dropped from an overpass.

Yep, exactly.

And yes, having grown up in and regularly go back up into the Rocky Mountains, I do sometime poke fun at the "hills" out east, but in reality there are mountains out that way to whether they are 14k or not. I mean I am sure the Alaskans or Canadians make fun of our Colorado mountains by that same logic

 

[Avoidin Deer]

And then those same yahoos promptly go plant themselves over in the passing lane!

Double (gah)(gah)

I'm sitting on my couch with my laptop, getting angry at those people!!!

We all wish that more tickets were handed out for impeding traffic.

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Having driven in both the Blue Ridge and the Rocky Mountains I can assure: they are both mountain ranges.

Yeh, but the highest peak of the Rockies is nearly twice the elevation of the highest peak of the Blue Ridge. Objectively, they are both mountain ranges, but comparatively they are very different from each other, especially in size.

As far as their respective roadway inclines are concerned (not knowing how high you can drive in each), I can't really say. I've driven the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia a number of times, but not the Rockies, although I've traveled the interstates of Arizona and New Mexico a bit.

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Yep, exactly.

And yes, having grown up in and regularly go back up into the Rocky Mountains, I do sometime poke fun at the "hills" out east, but in reality there are mountains out that way to whether they are 14k or not. I mean I am sure the Alaskans or Canadians make fun of our Colorado mountains by that same logic

You know, I never thought about the Rockies not having ultimate continental bragging rights. During my career, I've worked for businesses with multiple locations and have managed vendors across the country. The folks from Colorado were usually the ones to giggle when I tell them I'm going camping in the mountains.

Come to think of it, they giggled at about everything...I wonder why that was?

 

[ColoradoDriver]

You know, I never thought about the Rockies not having ultimate continental bragging rights. During my career, I've worked for businesses with multiple locations and have managed vendors across the country. The folks from Colorado were usually the ones to giggle when I tell them I'm going camping in the mountains.

Come to think of it, they giggled at about everything...I wonder why that was?

Rocky Mountain "High"?

I will giggle still because chances are the house I grew up in was a couple/few thousand feet higher in elevation (at 9k ft.) than the highest mountains out your way, but was still thousands under our high mountains (14k ft.).

So I definitely made fun of a friend of mine who went to the top of some 6k or 7k mountain out east to which I told him I was sitting on my ass at home 3k feet higher than he was. [emoji14]

 

[Xeler8ing]

And then those same yahoos promptly go plant themselves over in the passing lane!

Double (gah)(gah)

Or they then slow down the speed up and slow down again - coincides with them being conscious or not (hand)

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Or they then slow down the speed up and slow down again - coincides with them being conscious or not (hand)

Or they go fast until they encounter cars to the right of them, and then slow down and match their speed, because they are Passing-phobic.

 

[Xeler8ing]

Or they go fast until they encounter cars to the right of them, and then slow down and match their speed, because they are Passing-phobic.

(gah)