First MS6 Review

[crossbow]

Summer of 2005 for the US. Few months prior (supposedly) for Canada. I can't speak on the canadian dates, as Mazda Canada is a seperate and very bitter entity from Mazda USA.

 

[Mazda3]

The review is based on old spec press releases. They didnt' actually review anything. You see this stuff all the time in the computer hardware industry...sites just throwing crap together to get some hits. I'd take any and all information with a grain of salt.

Aren't they claiming to have driven the car in this article?

 

[crossbow]

If you read carefully, you'll see its just a paraphrased Mazda MPS press release =/. There really isn't even a tiny bit of new information contained in it. Additionally, most of the information doesn't even seem to be related to the later changes .

I mean honestly if you were going to review a car, you wouldn't sit there for 3 pages and talk about the stuff mentioned in a press release, you'd talk about how it drove, how it handled, how it performed...

In the whole article, the only section involving actual, usable, feedback is this...

Up to a very well-marked point, the Mazda feels sharp, fast and terrifically composed. It's fluid, poised and keyed in to the road, scything quickly through corners and annihilating straights.

Which sounds like someone else drove it, and told the site about it. Everything else is just rewritten press-releases. Hardly a review by any means...pretty sad if you ask me.

 

[eting_pro5]

If you read carefully, you'll see its just a paraphrased Mazda MPS press release =/. There really isn't even a tiny bit of new information contained in it. Additionally, most of the information doesn't even seem to be related to the later changes .

I mean honestly if you were going to review a car, you wouldn't sit there for 3 pages and talk about the stuff mentioned in a press release, you'd talk about how it drove, how it handled, how it performed...

In the whole article, the only section involving actual, usable, feedback is this...

Which sounds like someone else drove it, and told the site about it. Everything else is just rewritten press-releases. Hardly a review by any means...pretty sad if you ask me.

Don't forget the last two sentences where he wishes the car was more focused....LAME! Too bad the article said nothing about the car being "unfocused."

I'll agree it's a rewritten press release.

 

[wongpres]

I'm not going to go too much into the 4Car review as I haven't driven the vehicle and Euro reviewers commonly slam Japanese vehicles.

However, I can confirm that there was a Japanese press event to introduce the Mazdaspeed6. Here's a well-known Toronto-based journalist's review of it:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1100779268441&call_pageid=968867497088&col=969048871196

 

[crossbow]

Ah thats a bit better...but still, its 3/4 of an article about s*** you can read in a press released, followed by a short amount of actual review. At least thestar reviewer points out the car's understeer bias on the track...that tells us something big right there.

Stepping on the brake, or lifting the throttle, are primarily ways you get a FWD vehicle to oversteer. In a RWD biased car, applications of the throttle can swing the rear out during a turn, and can compensate for excessive amounts of understeer in certain setup cars.

 

[Rainman]

I have my black-on-black MS6 ordered for mid-Mar 2005. My dealer said that Mazda Canada was really pushing to move the date up a month so that we could get our shipment by mid-Feb. The price has not yet been set, but it is expected to be about $38,000-$39,000 CAN.

R

 

[Mazda3]

Yes, this is a better review.

The specs and descriptions of the way the car feels sure seem to indicate 0-60 times much better than 6.6sec. Its killing me waiting for someone to actually time the car.(huh)