87-91 Mazda Rx7 Oem Paint Colors
Love the exterior. What a acceptable change from the competitors' banal shapes (looking at you, Toyota and Honda). The Mazda absolutely looks new and fresh. It looks brittle with its continued awning and short-ish rear decklid, handsome creases and the absolute bulk of chrome.
There's abundant action from the banal and acknowledging four to accumulate things absorbing (above 3,000 rpm) and I like the six-speed manual. Admitting I bethink active the automated adaptation and I admired that, too. Get over it -- I'm old. The anatomy is the best front-driver on the market. Ride/handling is close with collapsed cornering and accomplished anatomy control, the council mostly authentic (wanders a bit on center, but not much). The harder you drive it, the added you cast it around, the bigger it is. It is a absolute car.
The autogenous looks good, and is able and able-bodied congenital with acceptable materials. Doors and dashboards are bendable to the touch. In fact, aggregate you blow is covered in bendable materials. The alone ablaze assignment is a allotment of banal aluminum-look artificial -- aloof the appropriate touch.
Overall this is abundant added absorbing and agreeable than annihilation abroad in the class. Bodies in the bazaar for a Camry/Accord should analysis this out first. It's aloof an honest what-you-see-is-what-you-get car.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: There's a lot of fizz -- I don't appetite to say advertising because it's not out of ascendancy or annihilation -- surrounding the latest Mazda 6. It's not adamantine to see why: On the surface, it's an adorable car (improbably so for its articulation and amount point) with a about flush autogenous and, theoretically, a birr of that Mazda zoom affair afflicted in. Plus, it's bargain and efficient, at atomic on paper.
Having assuredly spent some time in the car, I can confirm: It is actual good, so continued as you're accommodating to barter an affluence of agleam appearance and blatant administration for article with subtle, aseptic curve that is somewhat advantageous to drive. A breeze for you, maybe, but not for everyone.
That's not to say the car as activated is ill-equipped (with one or two caveats). The autogenous is nice to attending at and nice to touch, abnormally by Mazda standards, admitting for the almanac I am a fan of their lineup-wide Spartan architecture ethos.
True, there are blanked-out buttons against the basal of the centermost console. Bench boiler switches would, I suppose, go actuality if the agent was so equipped. The awe-inspiring one was the “Nav” button abutting to the touchscreen. The car wasn't able with a nav system. You accept to footfall up to the Grand Touring trim to get that, and, inexplicably, you lose the advantage of a six-speed chiral (there may be a way to get the arrangement installed in the Touring afterwards purchase).
Beyond that, the infotainment arrangement was simple and aboveboard if not cutting-edge -- no complaints. No amount what you accomplish of the blanked-out buttons and missing features, you're not affairs a Mazda because it promises the longest blueprint area for the price. You're affairs it because it's absorbed with some atom and spirit.
On cardboard the frugal little 2.5-liter isn't much, with aloof 184 hp and (more disappointingly) 185 lb-ft of torque. On this six-speed chiral car, it's hasty how able-bodied that motor gets things affective and, crucially, keeps aggregate bustling along. I accumulate audition acceptable things about the automated but I'm skeptical.
For a while I was active conservatively, aggravating to save gas and all -- accomplishing 30 mpg in a nonhybrid midsized has got to feel appealing good, right? But that's boxy to do for continued periods of time because the 6 is fun and acutely affectionate aback pushed. There's not abundant ability to actualize torque beacon problems, but I was absolutely afraid at the about abridgement of understeer.
Granted, I wasn't demography corners with closed-course aggressiveness, but you can acquaint that a lot of accomplishment went into befitting the car affiliated to the arena and again abutting you to the car. It's not as compulsively flingable as, say, the Subaru BRZ or the MX-5 or alike the apprehensive Mazda 2. It doesn't charge to be, though. It's a front-wheel drive ancestors sedan, and a appreciably counterbalanced one at that.
So continued as you're accommodating to accord with a tad beneath ability than our baby selves accept all become acclimatized to lately, you can't absolutely go amiss actuality at $25,010.
ROAD TEST EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: I get asked by bodies generally about what midsize auto they should purchase. I ask them what they amount the best amid ride comfort, ammunition economy, tech features, styling, adventurous performance, etc. and go from there. Quite generally I resort to suggesting a Honda Accord because archetypal shoppers are adorable for article that's bulletproof, acceptable on fuel, able and that will go about forever. However, aback addition tells me they appetite article that's absorbing to drive, I consistently point them appear a Mazda 6. The previous-generation 6 was sportiest active access into the midsize auto articulation aback compared to the brand of the Toyota Camry, Accord, Nissan Altima and Chevrolet Malibu. However, the beating on it was that it wasn't the greatest on fuel.
With the latest bearing 6, the ammunition abridgement botheration has been remedied with all of Mazda's Skyactiv stuff, including the failing chassis, suspension, engines and transmissions. The aftereffect is a midsize auto that, aback able with the six-speed chiral chiral like the analysis car we accept here, gets an EPA ammunition abridgement appraisement of 25 mpg in the burghal and 37 mpg on the highway. Things get a bit bigger aback you booty a attending at the 6 with the six-speed automated that receives 26 mpg burghal and 38 mpg artery EPA ratings. Those ammunition abstracts are appropriate up there with aggregate leaders in the chic which should advice the 6 address to a broader audience. Another affair account pointing out is that Mazda was able to do that after application a continuously capricious chiral like Nissan and Honda do.
As abundant as I've consistently admired how the antecedent 6 drove, I never begin it to be a decidedly great-looking sedan. I apperceive ... There's not abundant to get aflame about in this chic where, for the best part, banal and arid designs are key to affairs bulk of cars. Still, I acknowledge some administration attractiveness and the second-generation 6 had a little bit in the advanced end, but overall, according to Mazda North America administrator of architecture Derek Jenkins, it was a car that appeared over bodied, which I absolutely agreed with. With the Kodo architecture accent in abounding aftereffect on the latest 6, the car's accommodation are appropriate and the all-embracing attending is glassy and sporty. It's not over-styled like the Hyundai Sonata, but there's aloof abundant to accumulate things neat, tidy and interesting. The appearance band that runs through the hood, advanced fender and into the advanced doors is nice, as is the front-end analysis that does abroad with the antecedent smiley mug. It's a handsome car all-embracing and is amid the best-looking entries in the chic along, with the Kia Optima.
Where the 6 continues to excel is in how able-bodied it drives. Aggregate from the absolute steering, brakes and abeyance are acquainted to acknowledgment achievement that's lively. Turn the caster and the car is quick to respond; footfall on the anchor pedal and there's burning grab, and the abeyance keeps things angry bottomward and able-bodied controlled. Graham mentions the abridgement of understeer, and he is correct. The 6 exhibits acceptable front-end chaw and the aback of the car rotates about accurately for a front-wheel drive auto aback you bandy it about hard. The adventurous behavior doesn't appear at the amount of ride comfort, either, with our Touring archetypal benumbed able abundant for circadian active alike on the 19-inch tires.
The 2.5-liter I4 brings able ability to the Mazda 6 affair with OK low-end grunt. The agent revs calmly with acceptable burke response, and the six-speed chiral shifter is brittle and a amusement to use, forth with a clamp take-up that's in the average of the pedal achievement that I consistently like. And it's acceptable to see that Mazda offers the chiral on the midlevel Touring trim that gets you such aliment like dual-zone auto altitude control, six-way ability driver's seat, leatherette seats, dark atom monitoring, Bluetooth and the 5.8-inch blush touchscreen ball system. So don't anguish about alone actuality saddled with barebones accessories if you are one of the few consumers who appetite a manual.
The autogenous continues with a simple architecture affair with aboveboard controls on the centermost stack, nice body affection and materials, and able and admiring advanced seats. The centermost touchscreen is a little small, but it does the job and is accessible abundant to use.
All the assignment Mazda did on the latest 6 is admirable and puts it advanced of its mostly arid competition. The actuality that Mazda will be absolution the agent aboriginal abutting year will accomplish an already adorable and aggressive car alike added enticing.
2014 Mazda 6 i Touring
Base Price: $24,240
As-Tested Price: $25,010
Drivetrain: 2.5-liter I4; FWD, six-speed manual
Output: 184 hp @ 5,700 rpm, 185 lb-ft @ 3,250 rpm
Curb Weight: 3,183 lb
Fuel Abridgement (EPA City/Highway/Combined): 25/37/29 mpg
AW Observed Ammunition Economy: 30.3 mpg
Options: Soul red acrylic ($300); compass/auto concealment mirror ($195); aperture axle trim plates ($125); bright blur rear acrylic aegis ($75); burden mat ($75)
