you act as if amenities and some stupid features are more important than overall reliability and driving experience. Why did you still end up buying a Mazda if jeeps are such amazing vehicles?
jeeps don't handle well, whether you are driving in a straight line or around a turn, build quality and materials is poor, reliability is poor, fuel efficiency and acceleration is poor for the power it makes on paper, they break all the time, but it has real-time AWD and remote start, so people are all over it. goes to show how doomed the north american market is as a whole.
GJ_molestor: Have you owned a Jeep or just driven one? I have extensively driven a Grand Cherokee and it drives a straight line, each time, every time. Going over a turn: fantastic for its size. Finally - interiors are superb in all aspects. Sound deafening, quality of materials everything is right up there. Not sure what you mean by build quality and materials.
The only thing that's not good is the reliability - which has improved quite a bit also.
As for your remark on amenities and some stupid features - to each their own but I need integrated traffic - that's priority one for me along with safety features like forward collision warning, etc. Also - due to kids in the back seat I need USB ports, preferably an OEM entertainment center, rear seat heating and privacy glass. Those - BTW are more or less a given in a grand cherokee along with the fact that its suspension is much superior especially for rear seat occupants - who are kids and they don't really need to feel the road or the bumps as they tend to go off to Dreamland in a long drive anyways.
Why I bought CX-5? Only and ONLY due to reliability in comparison to Jeep Grand Cherokee and perhaps price. At the price I bought with the features I bought - a G.Cherokee would have been much costlier.