chandlerGTi
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Post pics of your Mazda5
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phunky.buddha
Booga Booga?
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- DFW TX
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- No mo MZ5 want MX5
It's the taillights to me- since it's a hatchback, it just seems odd to split it in half with the horizontal lights. The 1st gen with the vertical lights was the way to go. It looks good on the Kia Soul, most minivans (not really), most vans... even the Focus hatch and wagon.
Many hatchbacks, wagons, and minivans have horizontal taillights, the problem for me is that they point down. But then again, I was never a big fan of the vertical lights on the older 5 either.
I wonder how difficult it would be to switch it back to the old lights? The hatch should be a bolt on, I think the rear 1/4 panels on this car are bolt on too. Can anyone do a photoshop? 
I recently got an offer from my dealer to come in for a 2014 and the cover showed a stormy blue colored 5, too bad its not reality, looked nice.
I recently got an offer from my dealer to come in for a 2014 and the cover showed a stormy blue colored 5, too bad its not reality, looked nice.I wonder how difficult it would be to switch it back to the old lights? The hatch should be a bolt on, I think the rear 1/4 panels on this car are bolt on too. Can anyone do a photoshop?
i think you would be changing out the whole rear end. is appearance worth that much to you?
If I were buying it new to keep it for years and it would cost $2500 extra to have it be unique and the best looking 5 ever in my eyes, sure! Why not?
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- 2008 Mazda5 GT
Beauty in the eye of the beholder argument has no ending. To me, it has always been and still is the swoopy sides that kill it. I can accept the grin, the horizontal tails is not too bad (still prefer vertical), and I like the refreshed interior more. I recall doing a 10 min MS Paint edit to remove the stilly sides and the car look 1000% better -IMO. I cannot accept those waves Curves = yes, waves = no. Why didnt Mazda just use pin strips like everyone else so I can rip it off.
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- Mazda 5, Sport
Even more impressive is that I did all this without my wife knowing (dance)
Unfortunately the skies got overcast today, so just went out and did a quickie shoot at a parking garage close by for now.
MY2013 Liquid Silver
Lowered on H&R springs
Mazdaspeed 3 wheels plastidipped anthracite gray
Window tint
( Better to beg for forgiveness than ask permission..... )
You das man!
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- Mazda 5, Sport
(yippy)
I have fallen for your 5...I want to change to just have this car and modify like yours.
Thanks for sharing (yippy)
Quick snap in the rain....
I have fallen for your 5...I want to change to just have this car and modify like yours.
Thanks for sharing (yippy)
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- Mazda 5, Sport
Our Mazda is a white 2008 Sport, 49k miles, auto, tan cloth interior with no major issues
(nervous) Just wanted to see my car next to the 2nd gen...(sick)
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- Mazda 5, Sport
Quick snap in the rain....
I love the look of the rear of the 2nd gen. I would love for Mazda to do more to the front
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- 2015 Soul Red 6 Sport Auto 2016 Accord EX Auto
You can always switch out the doors with Nissan's version of the MZ5:
I always wondered what the back would look like with the lower bumper body color, and now that I have seen it, I like it the way it is now.
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- 2008 Mazda5 GT
Not sure if you've seen this but someone did a design study of an actual Mazda5 with a kodo face lift + the Lafesta doors. It would prob cost an arm, leg, and your first child to have 4 doors shipped + painted. I'm also 99.9% sure the previous gens doors are a direct swap.You can always switch out the doors with Nissan's version of the MZ5:
I always wondered what the back would look like with the lower bumper body color, and now that I have seen it, I like it the way it is now.
http://designrm.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/mazda-5-facelift-2013/
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- 2009 Mazda 5 Touring & 2012 MS3
Looking at nissan's version i almost miss the wavey lines. In the end im sooo glad i bought a gen 1. To each their own but i think mazda sucked the unique character out of the 5 with the gen 2 design. Its not necessarily ugly, but it now looks like any other mom and pop minivan with random wavey lines thrown in for ... who knows. At least its smiling
Plasti-dip sucks! After putting in a lot of time and effort to properly clean and paint the wheels, the stuff comes off to the touch. I can gently rub my finger across it and it will come off. I even did it a second time with the companies recommended "pre-dip" cleaner and bonding agent and the results were the same. I have to hand wash the car and avoid the wheels to keep it from coming off.
I am not sure what people are doing to get this stuff to stick to their cars, and maybe it's the finish on the Mazdaspeed wheels, but as far as I am concerned it's only good for testing out whether you like the color or not. Will be getting the wheels re-done with paint as soon as I get the time.
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I think just the opposite, the Nagare is what gives it the unique character. I have driven the Nissan Lafesta, it looks just like any other minivan to me.
The problem is in it's stock form the Gen 2 is a bit frumpy, but the same can be said of gen 1, especially without the side skirts and rear spoiler. I work in the auto industry and am around car enthusiasts all the time and pretty much everyone says "wow" when they see mine. Gen 1 looks dated to me now.
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- 2015 Soul Red 6 Sport Auto 2016 Accord EX Auto
Is the Lafesta tuned any differently or are all the mech bits the same as the MZ5? Does your work take you over the border much, or was the Lafesta over here as a market test?
It was here, didn't get a thorough enough drive to be able to say one way or another about the tuning. I am sure the suspension is tuned a bit different though.
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