Recent content by drzombie

In Canada here. My wife went in for regular maintenance and as we've had this problem occur a number of times, I asked her to get this taken care of as well. The service rep informed us that it is not covered under warranty - even though we have an extended warranty the reflash is not covered...

Downtown Toronto here Love my 5, love making fun of ignorant punks that come into our forum to say how their automatic-transmissioned CX-7 is sportier than my 5 because it has higher ground clearance even more (you might recall the thread from a few months ago).

Hey folks, read in Car and Driver that Ford is replacing the 2.3L engine in the Escape (same as our Mazda5 engine) with a 2.5L engine that makes 170hp and more torque. Sure would be nice to get that in the Mazda5 as well. Whatdyathink?

In all fairness, CX-7's=LOVE did try and address everyone of our arguments about why we prefer the 5 over the CX-7...except for one: Where is the manual transmission in your CX-7? How on earth can you argue that your car has more zoom-zoom when you only have two pedals??? You want to argue...

Zoom5Zoom, I got my '07 with leather, and I'm confused why you're cheering the discontinuation of the Espresso leather option. If they replace that with black leather like is available in the US, I agree, that will definitely look better, but if they completely eliminate leather from the 5, I...

Hey, hard time finding a MT? I must have been lucky then, I bought my 5 with leather and a 5 speed on the day I went to the dealer's. Waiting time = 0 days. (headbang) I agree with everything that's been said above: the author includes the Mazda5 on the list of cars that we don't need, but...

Hey folks, This supposed "car guy" puts the Mazda5 on a list of cars we probably don't need, but doesn't include crap such as the Kia Rondo and Jeep Compass. Further, in his review, he doesn't really explain why we don't need it besides the fact that not many people buy them. I've already...

1. Which model / color / transmission / options / etc. did you get? GT (Canada) grey, 5 speed, leather package (anyone else have leather AND a 5 speed?), all weather floormats 2. Whereabouts are you located? London, Ontario 3. Is this your first Mazda? Yes 4. What other vehicles were you...