Recent content by wiley264

Your warranty probably won't cover this, but your car insurance might. Have you checked with them?

Yes, the US regulations are strict enough that manufacturers can't really meet them without urea systems but the EU regulations aren't currently as bad. I don't remember the numbers offhand, but I believe the EU currently allows about twice as much NO per mile driven as the US. That will be...

... No. Just no. The urea treatment converts nitrogen oxide and a few other ingredients into nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water. This is important because if nitrogen oxide is released into the atmosphere, it oxidizes into nitrogen dioxide, which causes smog and acid rain. The fact that older...

<-- VW diesel owner visiting because I'm eventually going to let VW buy my TDI wagon back and I'm looking for possible replacements. A few interesting anecdotes from my experience so far: - "non-car-people" don't know about the VW emissions scandal. It doesn't seem to matter how much coverage...

Nope, turns out they're not.

So it's nice that the rear seat now reclines, but has anyone heard whether they gave up the 40/20/40 split to get it?

Nothing is known at this point - we don't know if the current generation CX-5 will actually get the 2.5T, we don't know if the next generation CX-5 will get the 2.5T, and we don't really even know when the next generation CX-5 will be available (although the current Car & Driver guess is that...

I'll admit my hope that the CX-5 will get a 2.5T is both irrational and self-serving, but it does actually need it to compete against the top end Ford Escape, Subaru Forester XT, Hyundai Tucson, and Kia Sportage. Arguably even the Toyota RAV4, which (rather hilariously to me) has more power in...

Per the US definition of a model year, a new CX-5 released in February-March of next year would be a 2018, not a 2017. We're already off the normal schedule anyway because of the 2016.5 revision. Given that Mazda decided to call that revision 2016.5 instead of 2017, they must have some 2017...

I agree with you in principle, but I can't point to anything Toyota has done in the last 10 years that matches that legacy. They did collaborate with Subaru on the FR-S/BR-Z, but Consumer Reports data says that car is way below average reliability, so much so that it's singlehandedly dropping...

OpenCar apps cannot actually run in any production vehicle. I believe they're partnering with Mazda in some capacity, but they've only ever shown their stuff working at auto shows - nothing actually on the road. It's a chicken and egg problem - they can't get developers to build apps until the...

Engines are large volume production even without sharing in situations like this because they're shared across all trimlines and easy to build in one place and ship to separate factories for vehicle assembly. The 2.5NA is already shared across multiple vehicles anyway. I find it very difficult...

You're assuming the 2.5T (which is actually already in the new CX-9) uses the same hardware as the 2.5NA. They almost certainly don't, for cost and weight reasons. They probably share a block, but not the rods/bearings/etc.

That's an information-free clickbait website. The text is either autogenerated or based on a predetermined article where they fill in the brand and car name. New car model search results are unfortunately full of such sites.

Mazda apparently thought there was a problem serious enough to alter their design during production to add that bolt. Now they've determined that they can't have that bolt for reasons described previously, but they put one fix into the new cars and a different, significantly cheaper one into the...