Posted on 10/24/2016 1:53:54 PM PDT by Chickensoup
I was born with a lead foot so I want acceleration and torque, but I get your drift, so to speak.
I review cars and Mazdas are my favourite Japanese vehicles. Every one of them is great to drive. Probably the only Japanese cars I’d buy with my own money, though I like Toyotas a lot, too, but for different reasons.
I’d be really torn if I had to buy a car now. Mazda, Kia, Hyundai, Volkswagen/Audi or Jaguar.
My budget forbids the higher end stuff, except for used. I own a 2005 Audi A4 wagon, basically a stealth S4 w/o the V8 and Recaro seats, my first German car after 40 years of Japanese. Bought used, mint, four years ago.
I’d look for a Jag XE used next time, but am disappointed they don’t make a wagon version.
Enjoy your CX-5. Great vehicle. And lots of vehicles these days have gigantic “pillars.” They stuff airbags into them. I’d rather have a more lithe vehicle with which I could avoid collisions, but no one ever asks me, and a lot of, if not most, of this stuff is regulatory Bs.
Get ready for really annoying nannies!
Cheers,
Jim
As a kid just out of high school (year 1970,) I worked at a VW Dealership, and if you slammed closed the driver's door, {while sitting in the driver's seat} your brains would wind up on the passenger side door window.
Yes the above is a little bit of a stretch (O.K. a lot of a stretch) but it sure felt like it.
The only other thing I don’t like about mine is the keyless ignition. It is a real pain to split the key and hide the ignition part in a tin box under the seat when I go to the beach. I’d like to just hang the car key around my neck
I miss the accessory setting with the push button start. You have to shut the car off and then “start” it again it’s your foot off the brake.
Cheers,
Jim
Press the start button without your foot on the brake and you get that setting. Press once and you get the radio and windows Twice the AC can come on
Yeah, but if the car is running already you have to shut it off and then do that. Adds a step.
I still like the push button start, though.
What did you decide on a vehicle? Myself I would wait until the elections over. I own a Jeep. Love it. The great thing about them is if you take care of them the depreciation is much less because they are so versatile. You can swap out engines/drivetrains easily so they will always be in demand if in decent shape. I plan on driving it until I die. But if I had a diesel like yours I would just drive it. But that’s just me. I’d love to have a diesel in my jeep but my budget for that is non-existent.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-volkswagen-vw-owners-settlement-20161025-story.html
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