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I can also tell you that your fuel economy is gonna drop. I went from the same size tires on my Jetta (for cost of ownership reasons) to 15s, and my fuel economy increased 2-3mpg on average. Also, I use my car for commuting mostly (33K in 16 months), and I couldn't see replacing 17s every year with the way I drive.
http://www.mazda.ca/english/40_38248.htm
Dinu
But I have to say this is the FIRST car I've ever even considered equipping with a radar detector.
The good ones are spendy... but I have a birthday coming up! heheheheheh....
Still, kyjd is right, this car just really wants to move.
Our Saab has a feature that lets you set a 'beep alarm' if you're traveling too fast. I have ours set to 80, I think. Boy, I wish the 6 had this! At the 40mph speed limits around town, I feel like I'm crawling! Very little sense of speed. (Again, particularly compared to the Miata, which felt like it was going 90 at 65...)
I'd rather go 45mph but feel like I'm going 75mph than go 75mph and feel like I'm going 45mph.
Ever wonder why SUVs tailgate and drive so fast? I'm sure there are lots of reasons, but one is likely lack of perceived speed. You're high up, and you feel slow and safe compared to the cars around you.
I hate that feeling- it makes fun driving harder to obtain within safe (and legal) limits.
I mean depending on the color (both exterior and interior), it limits which options I can pick? For instance, with black cloth I can't get a sunroof or ABS on a 6i? I tried it with beige cloth and it said that I can't get a sunroof with ABS? What the heck is that? They need to explicitly state what is possible. I spent 20 minutes trying to configure the car I want and have realized that it's not possible to have it.
I honestly can't believe that one of the world's largest car companies can screw up options package selection as badly as this.
I apologize for the rant, but this is unacceptable. No wonder that CEO got fired.
Email them, Email them, Email them about the options. I have.
What a disaster.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item- =2406939621&category=33723
(Note: This is not my auction. I just ran across it when searching for cool Mazda 6-related stuff.)
"I appreciate the opportunity to respond to you.
In regards to your e-mail, the website configurator is correct at this
time. Please understand consumer feedback is always very important to
Mazda. We are presently working to add more combinations in April. In
the meantime, please keep in mind that our Product Planning Department
is working with the limitations of a complex manufacturing environment.
Rest assured I have documented your e-mail suggestions for our
corporate record. These records are continuously being reviewed by our
Product Planning Department in an effort to provide only the highest
quality products to our customers. I have also forwarded a copy of your
e-mail comments directly to those who make the MAZDA6 product
decisions.
Please check back with us next month for possible combinations to the
configurator. If I can assist you further at this point, please let me
know."
So just email them, they do listen.
I have the same problem staying under the speed limit. This car just seems to beg to get pushed and I'm still breaking it in so it's agony not being able to punch it. I think it's a good thing that the car is faster than it seems, it makes you have better response times, kinda like Formula 1 drivers see the road at 200 MPH the way we see it at 60 MPH.
Dinu; I'll try to get my brother-in-law's digital camera and post some pictures of my 6 with both the lip and the grille.
I drove an Accord Saturday, and it's sweet. I'm probably going to buy it this weekend. And, according to the new Consumer Reports auto edition today, its reliability is right up there with Hyundai!
If not, I will wait til this fall, when hopefully Sirius will be optional and my Impala will still be running (then with probably 150,000 miles)...
Not sure what you mean by this.
The GFX hide the muscular lines on the bottom of the car?
richn2: I drove for about an hour in a mini snow storm on Saturday and found the car to be great in maintaining control in turns and stopping. The traction control only came on once(pushed it a bit just to see if it would come on actually) and this is with the 17's. There was a little bit of wheel spinning accelerating on inclines but I was still impressed and felt just as confident as I did with my 1998 Legacy which is saying a lot. Of course the tires are new so we'll see what happens next winter with a few miles on them. The car just seemed to hold the road regardless of the conditions.
r2s2: Where do you live? If you live close to the New england there is a dealer (Sentry West Mazda, Shrewsbury, MA) that I placed and order for a grey 6s MT w/ sprt pkg back in Feb, but canceled. Because I fortunately found another dealer within the state that had just received a black 6s MT loaded and bought. I almost bought an Accord, but after checking the Honda Accord owner's board, it seems like they're having reliablity and quality problems, lousy customer service. I had a guy parked next to me at the mall the other day with an '03 4 dr EX MT. We checked each others car and he said he wished that he would have waited to buy a 6s, because he liked the sleeker 6 look and was not able to get 6 cyl with the 4dr. He said compared to the 6, his EX looked bland especially the rear.
richn2: The 6 handles great in the snow & rain, even with the Michelin Pilot tires on the snow. Just last week we had about 8" of snow and it drove without any problems on the uncleared roads and highway. Also credit the standard traction control on the 6s for icy roads.
Drumm
http://www.mazda.ca/english/40_38256.htm
I knew Mazda made the car the way I wanted, I'd seen them in the inventory of other dealers (but wrong color)... And I asked my dealer if he could just order a car the way I wanted. He said his inventory came direcly from Mazda and they were only allowed to "ask" for a specific car at this time, no guarentee they'd actually "get" that car.
Ultimately I just kept checking dealer inventories at "area" dealers until I found the car. It took me only three weeks. It would have taken WAY longer to wait for my dealer to do this for me. I found later they weren't looking at all, they just were going to wait around until they got something close on the lot... sigh.
In fact, about a month or two ago, someone from MNAO was asking on Mazda6Club.com for the names of dealers who were refusing to order Mazda 6's for people, so they could address that with the dealers.
If I was mistreated or lied to by a Mazda dealer, I'd be sure to email Mazda at musa@mazdausa.com. The company does pay attention to its email. And you know from their emphatic "please put all 'excellents' on our dealer survey" spiels after you buy a car that dealers are concerned about their relationships with Mazda.
I flew to the dealer where I purchased my 6. Part of the deal was that they'd pay for the flight. I've not received that check yet (big surprise). Yesterday I called the salesman and said I'd slam him on the survey if I didn't get the check before the survey came!!!
He said he'd call me right back, and he DID (very concerned he was...) to say they'd not entered the $$ amount on the check but were doing it right now and that I should have it by Friday. (we'll see.)
But I mean it on the survey. My buying experience was VERY good... only bad mark would be the car wasn't very clean inside (I made them wipe it down before I left the dealer). But if I don't get my check I'm very willing to cry holy heck!
And no, I'm not talking about the Mazda6 full-color multi-page brochure. I already have one of them.
I'm not sure about the S-Plan pricing showing up on the sticker, but I've heard that it should. I ordered my car with a PIN from Ford's X-Plan, which I'm told is the same as Mazda's S-Plan, so hopefully everything will come through okay. The dealer told me that the S-Plan price would be within a couple hundred dollars of invoice.
Mike
Anyway, I saw the leather versions today, beige and black.
Black: does not look nice & soft.
Beige: looks nice, but the silver center dos not go well with the beige dash. They would be better of putting the black centre with beige.
so what are my options?
I don't like cloth...too rough & hard.
I would like the mazdapseed cloth however.
The black leather ain't that great.
The beige looks good, but the silver centre kills it.
Hmmmmmm.....
It is on the invoice that the dealer gets.
If you must know now - let me know. I've got a document that provides S-plan pricing broken out by option. I can put an email together so you can calculate what you should pay. Mine came out to the penny.
6s manual; sport pkg; leather; moonroof; Bose; comfort pkg; SAB; auto-dim mirror (no HL); sport grille; ULEV; wheel locks
Thanks a bunch!
Any confirmation?