2017 CX-5 Pics Thread
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It's odd that your GX has essentially no night time illumination. Just the lights to indicate key settings which should show up when the main headlights are off.
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Fair point!
I was driving my GT at night for the first time tonight. The headlight settings are on the left hand stalk - which certainly has no illumination. Took me a few goes to get it to AUTO so I could check out the auto high beam.
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I'm glad our guys spent the 5 to light up the consol! Seems an odd omission on an otherwise carefully spec'd out car with premium ambitions.
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Yeah that's true. I guess my recent cars have dials on the dash for headlight control, which generally are illuminated.
One more thing for my tiny mind to remember.
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Oh man... I'm laughing now. I was thinking more about it and decided it made no sense that my GX would have so little illumination, so I went back out to look again. I thought I had turned my headlights on when I looked before, but I guess not! Doh. (rolleyes)
Forgive me, I've only had it for about 56 hours now. Not quite long enough for anything to immediately stand out as unusual. My apologies for the confusion! No worries though, night illumination on the GX is just as it should be... (whistle)
Forgive me, I've only had it for about 56 hours now. Not quite long enough for anything to immediately stand out as unusual. My apologies for the confusion! No worries though, night illumination on the GX is just as it should be... (whistle)
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Correct. My old car had illuminated dial in the dash
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The 2017 version of soul red (crystal metallic, as opposed to metallic) does look a little more saturated and attractive than previous years when I was at the dealership. But even the old soul red was my top favorite. The reason I've ended up with a gray 16.5 CX-5, instead of a red one, is that I want a color that blends in better with the black base of the side mirrors. Speaking of which I've noticed that this black portion in the 2017 CX-5 is slightly larger than that in the first gen CX-5, so stands out a bit more than previous years (assuming light colored car body). Some car manufacturers seem to have opted to provide full side mirror that matches the body color.
If you mean the entire mirror as one colour? Not here in Australia:
Blue is base model Maxx, white is Touring model which is 3rd from bottom or 3rd from top (which ever way you look at it) and red is top of the range Akera. All of them have black bottoms on their mirrors.
Seems this is all countries.
Just checked Japan's website and it's the same. Even their optional accessories (Kenstyle) has fancy turn signal lighting but bottom is still black:
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yes I'm indeed referring to the black bottom. But my wife disagrees with me, thinking it actually looks nicer to have the black bottom, as a feature of the car body, else it may appear the whole car has been dipped in a giant pool of paint.
From the Mazda AUS website:
Talking about the outside of the mirror. Specifically mentioned on the US page under GT trim: body colored side mirror.
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Which in Mazda speak means the bulk of the mirror is body coloured, not the whole. It's the same for other Mazdas:
From Australian website:
Quote as body coloured here too (Aussie brochure):
I don't mind it at all on my Mazda6 and won't mind it either on my upcoming CX-5.
That style of rims has been on the base model since the release of the first generation back in 2012/2013
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