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

[Avoidin Deer]

Stays in power curve and normally locks out 5th and 6th gear.

Not sure I understand what you mean.
Does the manual shift not upshift beyond 4th?

(I just added to that list of things to test tomorrow).

 

[7eregrine]

Agree on reviewers being totally contradictory.
"Infotainment feels outdated"
Vs
"One of the most intuitive"
This was different reviewers from the same company.

 

[Xeler8ing]

Not sure I understand what you mean.
Does the manual shift not upshift beyond 4th?

(I just added to that list of things to test tomorrow).

Sports mode keeps the vehicle atleast in 4th gear predominantly at higher revs so you are in the optimum power band.

Have a look at this POV drive for more information about this, particularly from 11:42 mark:

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Sports mode keeps the vehicle atleast in 4th gear predominantly at higher revs so you are in the optimum power band.

Have a look at this POV drive for more information about this, particularly from 11:42 mark:

Thanks for that. That helped watching him go between shifting modes.

Every time I watch one of those videos, I feel my checkbook jump out of my pocket.

I was actually wondering about the Manual Shift Mode, and whether keeping the car in 5th @ 80MPH helped acceleration.

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Agree on reviewers being totally contradictory.
"Infotainment feels outdated"
Vs
"One of the most intuitive"
This was different reviewers from the same company.

I'll go you one better.

There is a video review on Edmunds site, and the guy absolutely gushed over the CX-5. His only dings were the lack of Apple Play and some Android technology, the low-voltage USB ports up front that cannot be used to charge (even though someone else said "Handy charging ports"), and the slow-response when in manual shift mode. Other than that, it was a "best in class."

Then I watched <i>another</i> Edmunds video where they compared the CX-5, the RAV4 and the CR-V on their test track. There were three guys, each of which championed one of those vehicles while the other two were kibitzing passengers. The guy who gushed over the CX-5 in his solo video was now representing the RAV4. While he didn't have much good to say about it ("It is at the end of its design life"), when he was the passenger in the CX-5 that someone else was championing, he was a lot less gushing than when he was the star of his own CX-5 video. I wanted to backhand my monitor.

 

[ColoradoDriver]

Slow response in manual shift mode?

While my previous cars were a manual and an automatic that didn't have any manual mode, I feel that the manual mode in the CX-5 is fantastic, responsive, and helps in the engagement factor. To clear the confusion, you can use it for all gears. Manual mode definitely comes in handy.

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Slow response in manual shift mode?

While my previous cars were a manual and an automatic that didn't have any manual mode, I feel that the manual mode in the CX-5 is fantastic, responsive, and helps in the engagement factor. To clear the confusion, you can use it for all gears. Manual mode definitely comes in handy.

His exact words were "There is a manual mode. But there's a little delay on response. It's not exactly the sportiest thing in the world." But he did not put it through its paces on video. The vid Xeler8ing posted shows just the opposite.

Of course, most things I've asked are easily done away with during a test drive. But there are so many features to test in so many conditions that it's tough to do without actually driving the thing around for at least a day or so...it's so much to cram into a single drive. I walked away with a long list of things to look at next time.

 

[Anchorman]

Some people wold want you to think the CX-5 is a pig in this department.

Its adequate for the highway. I have no problem merging onto the autobahn.

I suppose somebody else leaned over and took the photo at 120 mph.

 

[boandlkramer]

How do you find your CX-5's highway accelertion to be?

I suppose somebody else leaned over and took the photo at 120 mph.

Safety [emoji61]

But if you must know: I took the pic as a passenger in my wifes CX-5

I love how Sundays ban semi-trucks on the autobahn

 

[Avoidin Deer]

I suppose somebody else leaned over and took the photo at 120 mph.

That might be one of them there "Don't ask/Don't tell" things.

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Safety [emoji61]

But if you must know: I took the pic as a passenger in my wife*s CX-5

I love how Sundays ban semi-trucks on the autobahn

I cannot imagine what kind of rush that must be.

 

[ColoradoDriver]

His exact words were "There is a manual mode. But there's a little delay on response. It's not exactly the sportiest thing in the world." But he did not put it through its paces on video. The vid Xeler8ing posted shows just the opposite.

Of course, most things I've asked are easily done away with during a test drive. But there are so many features to test in so many conditions that it's tough to do without actually driving the thing around for at least a day or so...it's so much to cram into a single drive. I walked away with a long list of things to look at next time.

Perhaps an overnight test drive?

 

[Avoidin Deer]

Perhaps an overnight test drive?

You know, I'll have to ask.

This is a pretty rural area I moved to in 2010. I actually know the sales manager's father because his father is my neighbor's cousin, and I let his father bring friends over to hunt every so often (I got property). I'm also with a non-profit that does home repairs for poor folks, and we recently worked on the sale manager's grandmother's home. He & I discovered all this because I recognized the name when I walked in.

So I'm almost family But it still wasn't enough to get the guy to throw in a free hitch...just a cargo cover. I guess I'm a distant relative.

 

[Xeler8ing]

Thanks for that. That helped watching him go between shifting modes.

Every time I watch one of those videos, I feel my checkbook jump out of my pocket.

I was actually wondering about the Manual Shift Mode, and whether keeping the car in 5th @ 80MPH helped acceleration.

No worries (thumb)

Manual shift mode is just that - you manually control the gear changes

 

[Xeler8ing]

His exact words were "There is a manual mode. But there's a little delay on response. It's not exactly the sportiest thing in the world." But he did not put it through its paces on video. The vid Xeler8ing posted shows just the opposite.

Of course, most things I've asked are easily done away with during a test drive. But there are so many features to test in so many conditions that it's tough to do without actually driving the thing around for at least a day or so...it's so much to cram into a single drive. I walked away with a long list of things to look at next time.

I leave mine in auto mode pretty much 98% of the time. The 6 speed automatic transmission is one of the best out there and is smart enough to change several gears in one hit when needed.

 

[Unobtanium]

Wow ok here you go (sorry everyone else):

1. Do you have 2014 fwd/awd test numbers in the same spec by the same publication?
2. You know probably better than anyone on here that the car has gotten slower and slower with each iteration so to pull out archived 2014 awd numbers when I showed 17 vs 17 in identical spec is complete horseshit and you know it.
3. There's zero reason to think that the diffs that very clearly exist in the 17s didn't equally exist in the superleggera early editions of the 2.5 CX-5.
4. The question here isn't 0-60 or 1/4 (that favors awd grip off the line) its cars already moving punch the throttle where even your superleggera is only a match for the fwd 17 portly model in rolling accel and 50-70
5. Let's make Mazdas247 great again
6. MikeM

Finding them by the same publication at the same time (as you well know, time of day/ambient temp, etc. means a lot, especially to an engine that loves to pull timing, easily can cost a few tenths) is the issue, but I challenge you to find ANY CX5 of ANY year and ANY configuration tested by ANY reputable (not Bubba with his Timex) source that is faster than the one I liked you to, which happens to be AWD.

 

[Unobtanium]

I used to drive a RAV4 2010 V6. Fast and fun. When I got my CX-5 it was not wild more of quick but as other have mentioned when you reach 80 mph that needle will move a bit slow. Set to sports mode and will you well get a little improvement. Discovered nirvana and I have been driving my CX-5 on manual mode for several months now. Since then I no longer miss my V6 banger. Yes drive your CX-5 on manual and you will enjoy it a lot. You got the right gear when you zoom zoom on those twisties.

I think you just think you get improvement. Sport mode will do nothing for you.

 

[123373]

I think you just think you get improvement. Sport mode will do nothing for you.

I use it to drown out passenger chatter.

 

[Unobtanium]

I use it to drown out passenger chatter.

If you didn't have a 2014 in your signature, that would have been funnier.

 

[7eregrine]

I suppose somebody else leaned over and took the photo at 120 mph.

Why must we always assume the worst?
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Sport Mode does make the car more responsive at speed.