am I on the first 10 owner list?
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perfecto said:Glad to hear it KokomoDid you get the auto or a 5-speed?
I still haven't seen another on the road up here in Vancouver, BC, Canada yet either... and it definitely draws a lot of looks. I had one guy walk all the way around it when I stopped at a store, just checking it out.
It will probably take a year before the reality of the Mazda 5 sink in and then people will start buying. This is what happened to the Matrix. It only took off a year or two after it was introduced as it was new for its class at the time. Now the Matrix is everywhere.
I just got home - whew! They didn't take any $ off of MSRP - but they gave me 5% financing - so I was happy - I got to my goal numbers without any pain.
I'm gonna try to post the pic of me (the short one) with my brother and sister-in-law picking up the car today. (I've never tried to post a pic so I hope it works)
I'm so excited - I'm going over all the manuals and scotch guarding the rugs and seats (although I'm hoping that the dark color will be easy to maintain)
- Ceril
I'm gonna try to post the pic of me (the short one) with my brother and sister-in-law picking up the car today. (I've never tried to post a pic so I hope it works)
I'm so excited - I'm going over all the manuals and scotch guarding the rugs and seats (although I'm hoping that the dark color will be easy to maintain)
- Ceril
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I'd really like to know more about the navigation system:
Can the system take voice inputs for street names and adresses, or do these have to entered in with the controls? I read about the Honda system which was developed with IBM and can recognize spoken adresses.
How long does the NAV system take to acquire your position after starting the car up, and how accurate is it at determining your location (in ft.).
Is it touchscreen? For example, when it shows the restaurants, can you select it and get the adress and phone #.
How many points of interest are included (e.g. 2 million, 7 million, etc.) on the map DVD, and how old is the map DVD.
Thanks.
I'd really like to know more about the navigation system:
Can the system take voice inputs for street names and adresses, or do these have to entered in with the controls? I read about the Honda system which was developed with IBM and can recognize spoken adresses.
How long does the NAV system take to acquire your position after starting the car up, and how accurate is it at determining your location (in ft.).
Is it touchscreen? For example, when it shows the restaurants, can you select it and get the adress and phone #.
How many points of interest are included (e.g. 2 million, 7 million, etc.) on the map DVD, and how old is the map DVD.
Thanks.
Krimzeek said:
Well since we're talking about NAV. We don't have the NAV option in Canada right? How about ordering one and installing. Is that doable? Or does it have to come from factory installed?
Still waiting on my Carbon Grey. Frustrating thing was down the road from my work there was one available but dealers wouldn't trade. So back to waiting until mid August. (nuts)
No Nav in Canada? The US doesn't get the rain sensing wipers and something else too.
I was playing around with the Nav a little bit today. I forgot that you have to be at a complete stop for it to register. This is the same as the built in nav on my husband's toyota. The voice activated thing was pretty cool - you push the little face button the the steering wheel and the microphone icon shows up on the screen then you talk. I tried this alone and got a couple misunderstood commands - I can hardly imagine what it would be like with kids making noise in the background. Then again I didn't have the list of commands in front of me and I was making random guesses.
The screen is NOT touch screen - although there is a little "joystick" button next the the shifter that you can use to move over different locations. I'll have to do a more complete checkover once I read the section in the manual on it. It seems to me that there are some commands that you need to use the voice activation as I can't seem to find the commands on the menu screen. I'll try it again tomorrow. I let the directions take me "home" from work tonight - but I confess I wasn't paying too much attention to it.
It takes less than a minute for the gps to start up and find me on the map - I didn't time it exactly except that my watch still was showing the same minute value as when I started the car.
Anyone else out there have Nav?
I was playing around with the Nav a little bit today. I forgot that you have to be at a complete stop for it to register. This is the same as the built in nav on my husband's toyota. The voice activated thing was pretty cool - you push the little face button the the steering wheel and the microphone icon shows up on the screen then you talk. I tried this alone and got a couple misunderstood commands - I can hardly imagine what it would be like with kids making noise in the background. Then again I didn't have the list of commands in front of me and I was making random guesses.
The screen is NOT touch screen - although there is a little "joystick" button next the the shifter that you can use to move over different locations. I'll have to do a more complete checkover once I read the section in the manual on it. It seems to me that there are some commands that you need to use the voice activation as I can't seem to find the commands on the menu screen. I'll try it again tomorrow. I let the directions take me "home" from work tonight - but I confess I wasn't paying too much attention to it.
It takes less than a minute for the gps to start up and find me on the map - I didn't time it exactly except that my watch still was showing the same minute value as when I started the car.
Anyone else out there have Nav?
Personally, I'd rather get Microsoft Streets and Trips with GPS receiver for my notebook for $130USD. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6769543&type=product&id=1089242418928.
Nav systems reminds me of the days when they also sold car phones - you know...cellular phones wired into the car with the little extra antenna. Pretty soon, portable solutions will dominate. But I gotta admit, voice activation is really cool!
Is the Nav system part of the Touring package?
Nav systems reminds me of the days when they also sold car phones - you know...cellular phones wired into the car with the little extra antenna. Pretty soon, portable solutions will dominate. But I gotta admit, voice activation is really cool!
Is the Nav system part of the Touring package?
Allen said:
You'd have to knock down the second and third rows to get a bike in. There's a picture of this in the "mini brochure" for the Mazda5, and in that pic, one adult mountain bike pretty looks to take up all the room when both rows of seats are down. Perhaps you could fit two adult bikes in though in a one-on top-of-another fashion, but at that point I'd be considering hooking up some sort of bike rack on the outside for transporting.
With all the seats up there is very little room for items in the hatch. Perhaps a row or two of groceries. The way I describe it is "You can either carry a lot of people or a lot of stuff, but not necessarily both."
Here's a pic of side view of the back space from perfecto's flickr gallery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazda5/21366550/
And here's a pic with all seats down:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazda5/21366533/
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MP5Alive said:
I agree that a portable more easily upgradeable unit is probably much better in and of itself. However, having been in a car with a power splitter going to the kids DVD player, the husband's ipod, and a CB on a recent road trip - I'm really liking the integrated/no need to run extra wires of the NAV system. It has the DVD-drive for the NAV system in the glove box and I'm guessing that it will be pretty easy to get the upgraded DVD maps in the future - only a guess.
I guess soon, we'll all have little PDA's with all of our phones, music, maps etc. on it that we'll just place in a little docking station in the car and it'll reset everything to our personal settings.
Thanks! I'm loving it! - it's the phantom phantom blue mica!ZoomZoomH said:congrats miatafied on the new car! that's the elusive Phantom Blue Mica right???
Actually - there was an automatic in the same color on the lot when we got this one.
The color that I'm really dying to see is the Strato Blue.
- Ceril
I like these little guys = (wrc)
Picking up my 5 tomorrow!
I just heard from my dealer...my Platinum Silver Mazda5 Sport arrived yesterday! The dealer needs a little bit of time to install the fog lights (the only option I really wanted), and I'll be able to pick it up tomorrow night. Yay!
Steve
I just heard from my dealer...my Platinum Silver Mazda5 Sport arrived yesterday! The dealer needs a little bit of time to install the fog lights (the only option I really wanted), and I'll be able to pick it up tomorrow night. Yay!
Steve
