madsedan
06-19-2006, 03:15 PM
Bought my wife a new blue Mazda5 this weekend. We looked at allot of mini-vans but this fit everything we wanted and was substantially less expensive than the minimum $25k starting price of the Honda Odyssey. The car is not exactly a mini-van, not exactly a wagon, allot of car industry people are calling these "tall wagons". Its like they took a mid-size wagon like the Mazda6 and raised the roof and put dual sliding side doors and split middle seats with a third row.
It’s the same overall length and width as my wife's 2000 Passat (now 4 sale;) but only about 6-8" taller roof line. The car is as low to the ground as the Mazda 3 sport or Mazda 6 and handles like a nice asian sport sedan. It could use more power but what it has is not bad and its geared to where its pretty quick with the automatic.
Its the really cool blue cooler Mazda uses in all its print adds for this model and has nice toyo tires, 205/50-17. The Mazda RX8 18" rims/tires fit on the car and H&R makes springs for it so those may make their way to the car next spring and would look very attractive on it.
Nice highway driver with very nice fit/finish on the interior and exterior. The windows roll all the way down on the rear sliding doors and the rear bench seat folds flat for plenty of cargo room if you need it. My wife loves it, very cool and unique looking vehicle that you don't see very much on the road yet. Sitting next to a new Mercedes R class the overall profile is almost exact, just on a slightly smaller scale.
We bought the upper line touring model with every option but navigation and we paid $18,450 with my company's Mazda S-plan price break. Sticker on it was only $20,450 so I saved about $2k total and I get free replacement tires and battery's as long as we own the car.
It’s the same overall length and width as my wife's 2000 Passat (now 4 sale;) but only about 6-8" taller roof line. The car is as low to the ground as the Mazda 3 sport or Mazda 6 and handles like a nice asian sport sedan. It could use more power but what it has is not bad and its geared to where its pretty quick with the automatic.
Its the really cool blue cooler Mazda uses in all its print adds for this model and has nice toyo tires, 205/50-17. The Mazda RX8 18" rims/tires fit on the car and H&R makes springs for it so those may make their way to the car next spring and would look very attractive on it.
Nice highway driver with very nice fit/finish on the interior and exterior. The windows roll all the way down on the rear sliding doors and the rear bench seat folds flat for plenty of cargo room if you need it. My wife loves it, very cool and unique looking vehicle that you don't see very much on the road yet. Sitting next to a new Mercedes R class the overall profile is almost exact, just on a slightly smaller scale.
We bought the upper line touring model with every option but navigation and we paid $18,450 with my company's Mazda S-plan price break. Sticker on it was only $20,450 so I saved about $2k total and I get free replacement tires and battery's as long as we own the car.