CX-5 Owner ages?
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- 2023 CX-5 Premium; 2018 Mazda 3 GT hatch
Wow; glutton for punishment, eh? My wife's '23 is Soul Red and, predictably, it's the most difficult car I've ever had to touch up nicks and scratches on!
BTW: I'm 78 and wife is 74.
SimpleCanuck
2022 Mazda CX-5 GS AWD (Canada)
I'll be 54 next month. I bought my first Mazda (2012 Mazda3 hatch) when I turned 40, and I'm currently on my second CX-5 (both non-turbo).
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- Mazda CX 5 Touring
I'm 76 and I'm on my second CX 5 and I've come from a 2016 to a 2019 GT.
donvanvliet
"don't you eat that yellow snow"
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- Mazda CX5 AWD, 2.0
I am 66 and it's my first CX5. 2.0 AWD.
Millennial here, most of my cars have been used and under $5k. '21 CX-5 is the most I've spent on a car and the first time I've ever financed a car. Didn't have to, but money would grow faster elsewhere. Old enough I guess to have interior comfort, build quality, materials, etc be a higher priority than other considerations. Also wanting more elegant styling than what other makers are coming out with these days with tons of angles and fake vents and excessive body lines etc. I honestly could've been in a Lexus if only they weren't so ugly. Was on the fence about turbo or NA, but figured since I was going with somewhat higher mileage used, NA would be a safer bet. I've got a dedicated sports car so the Mazda doesn't need to try to be that.
BoomerZoomr
'25 CX-5 Signature '19 Mazda6 Signature
I am in my early 60s with the CX-5, and the wife is in early 50s with the Mazda6… both turbos obviously.
They will (hopefully) last a while… wife retired in 2017 and I retired in late 2020. We don’t put many miles on them… hers just turned over 13K miles.
They will (hopefully) last a while… wife retired in 2017 and I retired in late 2020. We don’t put many miles on them… hers just turned over 13K miles.
I guess I'll add my stats here. 55 years old. Picked up my 25 Select NA in December when my 2019 Toyota C-HR LE got totaled from a rear ender. At first I was only considering the CX-30 but the sales guy diverted me to the CX-5 and was glad he did.
For this car, I didn't want the headaches that can come with a turbo. Wanted more of a basic car feature wise but wanted some more upscale ones. And more importantly no iStop and CD. The Select delivers all of that. This is my daily driver so utility and reliability are more important.
If I want to scratch my itch for need for speed, I have my 2013 BMW 135i, 2022 BMW S1000RR, and 2004 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R for those duties.
For this car, I didn't want the headaches that can come with a turbo. Wanted more of a basic car feature wise but wanted some more upscale ones. And more importantly no iStop and CD. The Select delivers all of that. This is my daily driver so utility and reliability are more important.
If I want to scratch my itch for need for speed, I have my 2013 BMW 135i, 2022 BMW S1000RR, and 2004 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R for those duties.
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- 2023 CX5 turbo
I hear people say this a lot but I really do not ever see any headache associated with turbo on the cx5. I am at 47000 miles and nothing but oil changes and changed plugs. my brother in law has like 150,000 and done nothing. I would almost argue there are less problems with the turbo 2.5 than the na 2.5. I don't think the turbo's had the head cracking or the thermostat issues but not sure.
I guess it depends on the manufacturer and how the car is maintained. Oil and coolant service has to be done more often and meticulously on a turbo engine than a NA. I don't know enough about the 2.5Ts used by Mazda. But with BMW, turbos become a problem past 100k miles. It shows up as bad bearings which introduces too much free play in the turbine shaft. That's the issue I'm eyeing on my 135i which has 102k miles. The engine in my car is a N55 variant. The N54 engines used in previous model years of my car had twin turbos that were known to have waste gate rattle problems.
Overall, I wanted to keep any engine in a daily driver I own to be as simple as possible.
