When I was shopping for a 2020 in the Buffalo region and beyond, I think I saw one new FWD, a Sport. Hertz out of Pittsburgh was selling a couple of their FWD Touring rentals. That's about it.
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The FWD's are:
2 Grand Touring
16 Touring
1 Sport
No turbos out of those 129.
Here's a Dallas area dealer with 47 on the lot, 6 FWDs, all Tourings, no FWD turbos.
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Here's a Los Angeles area Mazda dealer with 64 on the lot, no FWD units at all.
A couple of takeaways:
- It's conceivable that the only way to get a FWD turbo is factory order. Mazda may not even offer them for dealer inventory.
- Of the 240 vehicles at those three dealers, there are 25 FWDs, about 10%, less than the FWD warm weather advocates would lead one to believe.
- Among the 240 vehicles at those three dealers there is a grand total of one Sport on their lots, that FWD at the first dealer mentioned.
- With the switch to AWD exclusively, these guys are already in the habit of upselling out of Sport. I suppose they're not going to have many objections to upselling another $1,400 on given the relatively small percentage of FWDs they currently carry. That LA dealer already wants nothing to do with FWD or the Sport trim.