Mazda5 is Mine! Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!

it had a pretty good review in Top Gear Magazine. they tested the new MX-5 and Mazda 5, and both scored 16/20 and 14/20 respectively.

definitely pretty good scores for a group of highly anal road testers, esp. considering they bashed the s*** outta pretty much everything else.
 
perfecto said:
Can anyone post a link to, or transcribe the review of the 5 in "Top Gear"?


sure... i am scanning it in right now. I will see if I can post it up. If not, just PM me your email address.
 
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Hey Everyone,

I just joined the forum and am also a new owner of a M5. Unfortunatly they are hard to get here (Ontario, Canada) and need to wait until late August/Early Sept. Perfecto, I must say as a fellow Canuck I'm jealous you have yours already!!

We had a really hard time with the color choice not being able to see them in person. So we called around the dealerships in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) and went to see each color in person. Our top 3 color picks ended up being:

1) Carbon Grey (Wife's Pick)
2) Platinum Silver (My Pick)
3) Indigo Blue

Originally we wanted a true silver like the sunlight silver in other mazda's as we have a VW Golf in Reflex Silver. So the salesman told us that Stellar silver is the same. When we saw it I had a sudden urge for a mint!! Not a bad color (Very interesting in fact) but not for us.

So here is our order that will be coming in the future. A Carbon Grey GT with air and Auto. I'll keep you posted....

Pic to follow once I find a place to host my pics.
 
tsturm said:
Hey Everyone,

I just joined the forum and am also a new owner of a M5. Unfortunatly they are hard to get here (Ontario, Canada) and need to wait until late August/Early Sept. Perfecto, I must say as a fellow Canuck I'm jealous you have yours already!!

We had a really hard time with the color choice not being able to see them in person. So we called around the dealerships in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) and went to see each color in person. Our top 3 color picks ended up being:

1) Carbon Grey (Wife's Pick)
2) Platinum Silver (My Pick)
3) Indigo Blue

Originally we wanted a true silver like the sunlight silver in other mazda's as we have a VW Golf in Reflex Silver. So the salesman told us that Stellar silver is the same. When we saw it I had a sudden urge for a mint!! Not a bad color (Very interesting in fact) but not for us.

So here is our order that will be coming in the future. A Carbon Grey GT with air and Auto. I'll keep you posted....

Pic to follow once I find a place to host my pics.

(cool) Welcome! Looking forward to seeing those pics and updates on your new Carbon Grey GT!
 
Welcome to the forum TSturm, and congratulations on your purchase! You will love this car... I'm approaching 900km on it already :)
 
I don't know much about the Mazda5 but its not a mini-van is it?

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J/k :) congrads on ur new car
 
tsturm said:
Pic to follow once I find a place to host my pics.

hey you can have them hosted here! jsut go to User CP at the top of the screen. scroll down and look for "Upload Files" on the left side column. select in and scroll down to the upoad selection! Oh yeah! and welcome to the forums. ill have to go the the local dealer when i get off tomorrow to see if they have a mazda5 and check it out!
 
MP3Architect said:
hey you can have them hosted here! jsut go to User CP at the top of the screen. scroll down and look for "Upload Files" on the left side column. select in and scroll down to the upoad selection! Oh yeah! and welcome to the forums. ill have to go the the local dealer when i get off tomorrow to see if they have a mazda5 and check it out!

Hey thanks for the advice!!

Thank you everyone for the welcome to the forum!! Well here is the picture of what we're getting sometime in the future. It's frustrating that they have this brand new one on the lot but can't be ours yet. Guess we need to wait until the end of August.

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The windows gotta be tinted IMO.

Who sells a mini-van that doesn't come with rear tinted windows? Granted the Mazda5 isn't 100% mini-van but it should still have factory tinted windows.
 
It's not classified as a Mini-van, which is why it cannot have factory-tinted windows.
 
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chuyler1 said:
The windows gotta be tinted IMO.

Who sells a mini-van that doesn't come with rear tinted windows? Granted the Mazda5 isn't 100% mini-van but it should still have factory tinted windows.

It needs tinted windows, an Eibach drop and some nice rims with the 5 speed and it would be sweet.

The colors are just awesome.

Showcase Mazda in Phoenix AZ has several of them on the lot just ready to go home with new owners.
 
Tinted Windows

Interesting about the tinted windows. It is confusing to say the least. If the Mazda 5 lacks the privacy glass (or whatever you want to call it) simply because of the way they chose to classify the "5", that is an oversight on Mazda's part. I realize minivans and SUV's have rear tint, but I also see a number of other vehicles which also appear to have standard or available factory tint; the Scion xb, Dodge Magnum Wagon, PT Cruiser to name a few. Regardless of how their manufacturers chose to classify them, these vehicles are not true vans or trucks, yet they have the tint..
 
I just counted the windows and there would be 11 windows to tint. That isn't going to be cheap. 5 down each side and the back one.
 
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