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- State of Jefferson
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- 2017 CX-5 GT AWD+
I have not watched the review. I have a 2013 Speed3 and I have not experienced power loss like what was described in OP. My guess is, he was flooring it at a certain speed and it caused the transmission to downshift to a gear that put it at like 5K RPM or somewhere in the rev range where it is out of steam already. And so there was no power until the transmission would move on to the next gear.
Edit: Does turning Sport mode on, on a turbo CX-5 allow it to rev past 5k RPM? If so, then that would explain it. The car could have downshifted to a gear that put the revs at 5.5K RPM and it revved all the way to the redline before shifting gears. It would not have had full power during that time.
THIS is an interesting theory.
Any turbo owners willing to test it out?