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[Here's the monthly sales report I've been doing, it just adds the historical monthly sales from 2007 to 2011] North America Mazda released their August 2011 US sales data. In August 2011 1,326 Mazda5s were sold, up 15.7% from August 2010. For comparison 9,424 Mazda3s were sold in August...

[Here's the monthly sales report I've been doing, it just adds the historical monthly sales from 2007 to 2011] North America Mazda released their May 2011 US sales data. In May 2011 1,628 Mazda5s were sold, up 14.3% from May 2010. This is the best May since 2008, and is the highlight of...

[Here's the monthly sales report I've been doing, it just adds the historical monthly sales from 2007 to 2011] North America Mazda released their April 2011 US sales data. In April 2011 1,370 Mazda5s were sold, down 14.1% from April 2010. For comparison 8,584 Mazda3s were sold in April...

I've seen two new 5s in my drives around Denver. Mazda was lucky in that at least their assembly plant in Hiroshima is in southern Japan, far away from the Tsunami affected areas.

[Here's the monthly sales report I've been doing, it just adds the historical monthly sales from 2007 to 2011] North America Mazda released their March 2011 US sales data. In March 2011 3,866 Mazda5s were sold, up 139.4% from March 2010. This is the best sales in a month ever for the Mazda5...

[Here's the monthly sales report I've been doing, it just adds the historical monthly sales from 2007 to 2011] North America Mazda released their February 2011 US sales data. In February 2011 1,711 Mazda5s were sold, down from 13.4% from February 2010. It was the Mazda5s worst February since...

I keep about 15$ of quarters in the little tray between the ignition and the center console. It's easily accessible, but no one can see it from the outside looking in. I keep extra diapers and wipes under one of the second row seats along with some bottled water, granola bars and a blanket...

[Here's the monthly sales report I've been doing, it just adds the historical monthly sales from 2007 to 2011] North America Mazda released their January 2011 US sales data. In January 2011 1,547 Mazda5s were sold, down from 5.9% from January 2010. The Mazda5 had its best month since April...

An aftermarket deck works well.... Head units that do bluetooth have greatly come down in price. I installed a JVC KD-R900 a year and a half ago and have been very happy. You can get them for under $170. My bill of materials is here. It kicks butt. It pairs up with my Bluetooth Android...

The seventh seat sells me. Why Mazda never offered it in the States is beyond me.

If they were the LM-25 or LM-22s, the Bridgestone Blizzak Sport Snows, the tires would perform better than the stock Toyos. I've got LM-25s on my 5, and when I rotate them out in the Spring for the Toyos, I get depressed.

[Here's the monthly sales report I've been doing, it just adds the historical monthly sales from 2007 to 2010] North America Mazda released their December 2010 US sales data. In December 2010 791 Mazda5s were sold, down from 51.2% from December 2009. For comparison 9,023 Mazda3s were sold in...

Yeah, it makes sense, but the OEM one uninstalls by unlocking the end and untightening (by hand) a bolt (one per post). Whereas the INNO requires one to unlock the end, and remove two bolts per post with an allen wrench, and that still leaves the unsightly nubs, which is another bolt per post.

I got the INNO from autoanything for 195$ too. IMHO: They are much noisier and harder to install/remove than the OEM racks I had before.

I did a quick search of inventory in Denver. Zero Mazda5s. One has to go 63 miles south to Colorado Springs, where one dealer has six in inventory.