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NoAre diesel vehicles aka cars, SUV's popular in the states (uhm)
NoAre diesel vehicles aka cars, SUV's popular in the states (uhm)
nope
Diesels in USA are popular only for tow vehicles and that is usually high weight towing. The cost of Diesel usually runs about 25-30% higher then petrol and in some parts of the country is not sold at every gas station. I think some of the American Diesels of the 70s and 80s really turned people off to them, and they never recovered.
My friends family had a VW Rabbit (Forerunner to the Golf) and he got about 48mpg but we had to know where the diesel stations were. I remember pushing his car about 1/2 a mile one time when we didn't make it.
I wanted the diesel when i heard about it, but my few towings are light and far between, and not as many highway miles as i thought. Not sure a diesel would have made much sense for me.
Have driven a diesel lately? You haven’t.
I had the ‘79 diesel rabbit - quite different than the ‘14 TDI.
Here in the continental states diesel is available coast to coast without worry - fuel prices are sometimes equal to regular, sometimes equal to premium. It is rarely priced higher than premium.
It’s just a great driving experience due to torque. You wouldn’t need to tow to get excited.
It handles worse though.
Its a bit melodramatic. Its a car not a life.
Mazda tweaked the chassis to make it stiffer and then softened the ride slightly according to most written reviews.
They did this based on feedback from owners and reviewers of KE CX-5.
My friends family had a VW Rabbit (Forerunner to the Golf) and he got about 48mpg but we had to know where the diesel stations were. I remember pushing his car about 1/2 a mile one time when we didn't make it.
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Mazda is also working in a unique hydrogen rotary engine. This might be used in a hybrid platform too. Whether it come to fruition or not, the Mazda engineers are not sleeping.
http://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/env/hre/
That is your personal opinion and not based on anything scientific or on a large scale survey.
Mazda tweaked the chassis to make it stiffer and then softened the ride slightly according to most written reviews. The G Vectoring while mostly indistinguishable to drivers does make the car feel like it drives on rails. That’s my observation.
It's a cold hard fact backed by scientific method and data and testing.
Hydrogen OR gasoline. THAT is amazing.
Can you post this data for us so we can see it ?
Can you post this data for us so we can see it ?
Most new models follow the “bigger and faster is better” mantra, but not the Mazda CX-5. We tested an identically equipped 2016 Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring AWD about a year ago, so we can directly compare the performance of the newcomer to its predecessor. Despite the 2017 CX-5 Grand Touring AWD’s 3-horsepower advantage, its extra 141 pounds of curb weight work against it. The 0–60-mph acceleration run takes the new CX-5 8.4 seconds to complete compared to the old CX-5’s 7.8-second run. The same story continues at the dragstrip. The 2017 CX-5 needs 16.4 seconds to run through the quarter mile, hitting 83.8 mph; its slightly older brother needs 16.0 seconds and blows through the gates at 85.0 mph.
The same trend continues through the rest of our instrumented tests. In 60–0 braking the 2017 CX-5 needed 126 feet to come to a complete stop, 10 feet longer than its predecessor. Although the new CX-5 matched the old in skidpad performance (0.81 g average), it weirdly trailed far behind in the figure eight—28.5 seconds at 0.58 g average compared to the 2016 CX-5’s 28.0 second at 0.59 g performance.