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The adaptive cruise control is one of my favorite features in this car. The fact that it cuts out below 15 mph is one of the worst nuisances of this car - makes it far less functional in normal Southern California freeway traffic.

Thanks for the good information. I had assumed that the Maintenance warning would be set at the recommended interval but now I realize that it's highly variable. I really had wanted to buy my CX-9 from our local Mazda dealer but there were so many miscommunications that I ended up going...

Finally had a chance to look in the owner's manual tonight and the maximum interval is 7500 miles, so we should be able to just squeek in. But I'm still wondering what would happen if someone were to wait until for example 9,000 miles before an oil change. Do they lose their whole warranty?

A friend of mine has a 2016.5 CX-9 and even though he intended to do oil changes every 3,000 miles, he had some family health issues and now has 7,400 miles on his car and still hasn't changed the oil himself or done his first service at the dealership. If he takes it into the dealership for a...

I was noticing the same thing. I have several USB ports to choose from but have ended up using an Anker cigarette-lighter charger with the cord dangling down in the passenger compartment. Why wouldn't all the USB ports in a vehicle like this be full powered? For devices like my iPhone and iPad...

That was a great and insightful commentary and you had my attention the whole way through, until you said you were moving on to a truck. I was anxious to hear whether your next SUV was going to be a Volvo, Subaru, Honda, or Land Rover. Kind of like someone discussing the virtues and faults of a...

Back to the original question, it sounds like the "mystery button" is there for one specific sit of circumstances - it's for when the car is unlocked and someone is at the back of the car and wants to lock up the whole car without walking over to one of the front doors. Is that correct? Or, is...

Sorry, I don't understand this sentence. And, although I know next to nothing about how this works, I'm pretty sure that there's no "signal" to "capture" like there is with a garage door opener. Just guessing, but I would think it would be more like a network handshake. The amplifiers that...

I agree that in practical use, it's best just to use the key system as intended. However, a neighbor recently had their Subaru stolen and the theory was that the crooks used an amplifier/transmitter of some sort to pick up the key's signal (which was in their house, just behind the front door)...

Any chance that they'll come out with an update for US cars that lets us use the CX-9 in true stop-and-go traffic? They have it on some foreign models.

But real world experience doesn't always bear that out. Just a couple of months ago (late ski season this year in California) we opted to take my CX-9 instead of my buddy's fully loaded MDX (about $15,000 more than the CX-9) simply because the Mazda "felt better" on a long drive. So, yeah, it...

This. :)

I guess I don't see the boundaries as clearly as you do. When I started looking, I figured that Range Rovers and the Jaguar would be the top end of the vehicles I'd consider and that, I dunno, I guess Ford would be the bottom end. That gave me a lot of SUV's to look at and my final choices...

I figure that the price difference would mean that for every day I drive it, the Audi would cost about $12 more than the Mazda. Not a big deal but if I were renting a car and the Mazda came with a free $12 breakfast, I'd probably take the Mazda over the Audi. After shopping around a bit, I...

Agreed, but are you buying a "league" or a car? Just saying'.

Probably because that's what you have to compare the CX-9 with. :) Hey, I would much rather have a "prestige" brand like Audi or BMW, but the least expensive Audi with some of the CX-9's trim and safety features has an invoice of $54,000 and an MSRP of $58,000. Sure, the Audi is probably a...

If you do your homework (and it takes a bit of work) it's possible to be relatively certain that you're buying at the maximum dealer discount. But, an equally important variable is whatever Mazda is currently offering in the way of incentives and rebates. And there's not much you can do about...

Short of redesigning the body style for more cargo space, the improvements I'd like to see would be: • A rack system that allows the cross bars to be further apart (just in case I ever want to carry something on the roof that's more than five feet long) • More intuitive automatic headlight and...

I think the air conditioning is great, but this car soaks up heat like none other (even with the light colored seats). I've gotten to the point where I reflexively open all the windows and the sunroof immediately after getting in the car.

I was having a little trouble adjusting to the keyless system (and lack of a hide-a-key) so on my first trips with the car, going skiing, I found that I was most comfortable with just putting the key on a lanyard (an old boot lace) and wearing it around my neck, under my shirt. I would just...