TommyChung71
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Scenario: youre buying a new CX-5. Do you buy the 2017 for slightly cheaper that they are trying to move, or do you buy the 2018 that has the cyclinder technology?
Sometimes the latest may not be the greatest ⋯ (boom05)I just bought the 2018 GS over getting a 2017 GS. I wanted the very latest and greatest across the board.
We picked up a 2017 GT AWD in late December specifically because there is zero benefit on an AWD CX-5 to have CD. Plus, the one we purchased only had 5 miles on it.
1 whole MPG Anchorman? Isn't that supposedly the gain?
If getting a Sport or Touring, I'd go 18. If GT, 17.
wrxray got a 2017 CX-5 GT AWD. For AWD CX-5 he said it correctly, theres zero MPG benefit with CD on combined fuel economy according to EPA.At face value, yeah, it doesn't look like much. But extrapolate it out over 120,000 cars per year, assuming 12,000 miles per year average, and each consumer would save about 18.5 gallons, * 120,000 vehicles = 2,220,000 gallons of gas saved per year.
We picked up a 2017 GT AWD in late December specifically because there is zero benefit on an AWD CX-5 to have CD. Plus, the one we purchased only had 5 miles on it.
wrxray got a 2017 CX-5 GT AWD. For AWD CX-5 he said it correctly, there’s zero MPG benefit with CD on combined fuel economy according to EPA.
yup.. just checked. 2017 AWD is listed as 23 city, 29 highway, which i believe had 25 combined.
2018 AWD is back to 24 city, 30 highway... just like Gen 1.
(drive2)
Canadian CX-5 Fuel Figures:
2017 Model with no Cylinder Deactivation:
2018 Model with Cylinder Deactivation:
I believe the '18 has some QOL differences too doesn't it? Like auto up/down for all windows as an example that the '17 does not have.
There are the big items like cylinder deactivation that's a consideration, but there are those smaller things too.
Myself? Don't know. I'd probably look for a gen 1. I'm just not big on the gen 2's styling.
hmm, i thought for 2018 the average for AWD went back up to 26, which was down to 25 for 2017 AWD due to all the extra weight?
that's what i based my math on.