Considering an 08 5

[MitchRapp]

I've been reading this forum for a while as I'm considering buying a 2008 Mazda5. I think this will be my next vehicle as it should serve my family well. I have a couple of questions for the 5 owners:
1. Do any of the trim levels come with an outside temperature display?
2. What is your opinions of the cloth and the leather (I haven't decided on a trim level yet)?
3. Does the Bluetooth hands free work well? Does it have a voice recognition system for phone address book?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide

 

[dreamym5]

1. out side temp is stardard option through all trims
2. Lether is standard on GT models (love to have leather but cloth is nice too)
3. not sure since i don't have Navi with BT.

 

[obaksmit]

I just purchased an 08 GT. Great car. The bluetooth works very well. The only partial downside to it is it doesn't link to your phone's address book. You have to program all numbers in to the system you want. The one cool thing about having to do this is the system can pair to several phones ranked by priority. If you have something programmed in the address book called "home", the same entry will work on any phone paired. The other slight downer with the system is it doesn't display caller id info. Just the phone number on the radio readout, though still it is very very cool.