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Mazda already offers the 6 stationwagon with AWD in Europe. We can buy the 2.2 diesel 150hp with manual transmission and the 2.2 diesel 175hp with automatic transmission both with AWD. If only they would offer the 2.5-G with AWD as well....

Look like Mercedes will be introducing Cylinder deactivation on their new 4 cylinder 1.3L engine (co-developed with Renault) in the new A-class, so that's one more starting to use CDA on four cylinder engines...

To be fair, they also called SPCCI when it was announced in august/september last year: https://jalopnik.com/i-drove-mazda-s-holy-grail-of-gasoline-engines-and-it-w-1800874806 It looks very promising :-)

Except VW on their 1.4 Turbo (since 2011 I believe) and their new 1.5 Turbo. Ford is implementing it on their 1.0 3-cylinder engine.

It's actually large and above average for a 7-seater in Europe. We have plenty of 7-seaters which are the same size as the CX-5.

Don't get me wrong, I would love a CX-8 with the 2.5 petrol (with or without turbo). I just love the petrol engines without turbo from Mazda .

True, but they could easily put the diesel in the CX-9 as well :-) But for size, the CX-8 is more suited for Europe than the CX-9 (just like in Japan).

We don't get the CX-9 here in Europe, so the CX-8 wouldn't overlap anything (I'm hoping for both but I guess the CX_8 would make more sense) and it would be nice to have the CX-4 sitting bewteen CX-3 and CX-5. It may take sales from the two other but they would still be selling a Mazda.

That was my inital thought as well. The oil should of equal quality. We've been doing 20k km on most cars for the past 25 years. Some are still 15k and some are 30k or even 35k km between services (incl. oil changes). Even the Ferrari 488 has 12.5k miles (or every 12 months) between services...

I'm sorry but I trust the Mazda engineers more than a self-proclaimed expert. Unless You have some actual evidence to support Your claim, I'll stick with the recommended service intervals. And I can tell You that one of my previous cars (A Fiat Punto 1.9 turbo diesel) should have died before I...

Thnaks, I just found it and it was the same for all my previous cars :-)

No, I'm not insane, are You? I change oil per Mazdas recomendations, which in my region is every 20k km. Which sort of negates Your last statement, as I already change the oil on time.

I'm curious. I haven't got CX-5 but a CX-3 (but the engine is the same 2,0), where in the manual is there anything about a break-in period? I can't find anything in the CX-5 manual or the CX-3 manual. My dealer didn't mention anything (which no dealer where I've bought a new car the past 17...

Must (another) one of those weird Mazda regional differences then....(confused)

Yeah, I know and it makes sense (since You're taking it back to the US), altough it kind of limits the use of MRCC on the autobahn while You're in Germany. I still don't know why there's a difference, except it must be a US demand to limit the cruise control in this way.

That's because You bought the non-european version (which allows cruise control up to 125 mph or 200 kmh (wink) )

I think You need to hold down the "Mode" button until it changes from MRCC to regular cruise control (and hold it down again to switch back).

Just throwing an outsider in the mix, how about the Alfa Romeo Stelvio?

Well, I can tell how many times that has happened to me: zero times as in never. And if it's that big a safety advantage, it makes me wonder AWD hasn't been required by law like ABS and ESP.

My thoughts exactly.