Wife uses it to commute back and forth to work, on the weekends we use it for trips to Home Depot/Lowes or for hauling our motorcycles to races and trackdays. :D
The install of the CPE unit was pretty easy, but it's pretty loud. Louder than I was expecting it to be. My brother had some aftermarket stuff on his little Focus (Air Intake, Throttle Body, Diablo Chip, etc.) and his intake noise wasn't nearly as loud as the CX7's.
Since it's the wifes car...
To be fair, you're comparing the MSRP of the Mazda to the (assumed) negotiated price of the Acura. We got our CX7 Sport w/ Tech Package for just under $24k OTD. We don't have the leather or some of the other features that the GT has, but we actually prefer the cloth seats. It gets to hot here...
For the US folk, I think it's a 18 gallon tank. I filled up this morning about 4-5 miles after the light came on and I put 15.5 gallons in. So that'd leave about 2.5 gallons in the tank, but I wouldn't push it that far so figure 1.5 gallons before you should absolutely fill up.
The tank this...
Ours went up a little from her previous '06 Corolla S. We're with Liberty Mutual, full coverage, a few tickets and an accident puts us right around the $75 a month mark. :)
Thats a pretty cool hobby you got there Alpha Wolf, I have a couple of friends that can really fly on their FZs! :D
My wife at Barber Motorsports Park (T4)
Me at JenningsGP (T9)
The two of us at Road Atlanta last summer
Our motley endurance team - Team Wannabe Racing (rofl2) :D
I work in Atlanta and have seen quite a few around town. However, I live in a pretty rural area and just the past week I've seen the same White CX7 three or four times. (shocked)
Ironically, I was working on my wife's motorcycle late last night and decided I'd take it on a quick test run to...