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The more time I spend with this car (3500 miles in 3+ months), the more I realize that this is a vehicle that was put into production with certain unresolved NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) issues. I'm wondering if others are coming to the same conclusion, judging from several threads here on dash and door panel buzzes and other noises. I haven't spent much time in my 2013 Touring in the past 3 weeks as my wife has been using it for commuting while her clutch leg heels from knee replacement surgery and I get to use her Miata as my daily driver. Yesterday we took a leisurely drive out to the coast. On the way I noticed that the intermittent dashboard buzz was back and when we got to our destination and were driving down a coarsely paved road at slow to moderate speed, I could feel/hear "waves" of buzzy noises passing through the interier plastic from front to rear as the Yokahama Geolanders passed the coarseness of the road up through the suspension and into the body. You could actually sense the vibrations traveling up into the cabin, setting off the plastic panels front to rear as the car progressed down the road. I know this is an entirely new body for Mazda and that they took a lot of weight out from previous CUV efforts, but they were supposed to have replaced the bulk with new, high strength materials. If this is the result, I'm not impressed. I'm also wondering if this is more of an issue with the Yokahama tires on the Touring. Any thoughts?