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Oh wait, but the 16 does that better as well. My comments from the black 16 vs black 17 thread is spot on. One look at them and you can clearly tell the 16 is more planted to the ground and ready for more aggressive driving. Yes, I've driven both, and this was clear from the start.
Well, looks don't tell the whole story, the suspension on the 2017 has a lot more "give" in it (liquid-filled bushings, etc.). To combat this, they mounted the steering linkage more solidly to give better steering feed-back and "hide" how soft they had made the suspension, along with the GVectoring deal to hide some of the "squirm" on turn-in.
In short, Mazda has gone after sales by "maturing" the platform, getting rid of the notion that people buy CUV's "because racecar", and made it much better to live with. I suspect sales will benefit from it, and the Mazda faithful on this forum will have to re-tune their story to match the new philosophy expressed in the vehicle.
I personally would like the changes in my own CX5, but it's obviously not worth trading in a 2 YM old vehicle on it, and it is rather easy to console myself with the fact that at least my car could go head to head with a new CR-V on the backroads while the new CX-5 would get left behind.
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