247 community defender of: gen1 steering, styling, seats and gated shifter, compression ignition, rwd, Asian twins, winter tires, manual: tailgates, transmissions, ebrakes, also liquid silver and Lawson's Liquids FTFW!
My automotive lineage:
1983 Toyota Celica GTS 5MT- aka rustback
1984 Toyota Supra 5MT- more powa
1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo 5MT- Awesome- newfound respect for term mid-engined oversteer!
2002 MB C230 Coupe 6MT- 1st new car(chosen over GTI) and a good one but gremlins
+good house/bad driveway
2006 Acura TL 6MT (shortest ownership by far 1year of tq steer&driveway fails>enough)
2007 Honda CR-V AWD EX-L -not much to say boring excellence?
2009 BMW 128i 6MT - End of the old-school bimmers probably should have kept.. wanted 4drs
2014 Mazda CX-5 AWD GT - what can I say not so boring excellence? I continue to be impressed.
2015 BMW X1 RWD Msport - Liked it, fast enough and still did donuts, e-steering wouldn't let me love it
2019 Hyundai Veloster N? - Yep..its good
2019 Soul Red Crystal Metallic CX-5 Signature
2017 Machine Gray Metallic MX-5 Miata RF/GT/MT Launch Edition
2019 Racing Orange MX-5 Miata RF/MT 30th Anniversary Edition on order
27 Mazdas since 1974
^^I agree.
The entire instrument panel/interior in the RDX is way over cluttered/over complicated. Acura's approach seems to be to maximize gadgets/settings/modes/displays/options etc. Mazda's approach is more toward providing the important features yet make them as uncluttered/simple/intuitive as possible.
I find beauty in simplicity but maybe the millennials prefer the Acura approach.
I'm not sure I wholly agree here. While Mazda definitely takes the simpler, intuitive approach, some of the menu options are buried so far that it can get annoying sometimes. I guess that is one area where a touchscreen has a big advantage. It can be easier to touch a small button on the display vs. navigating menus with the HMI Commander switch. For example, there are some who don't like the HUD. Because the HUD always turns on with the car, those people have to go into the menu and disable the ADD every single time they start the car. However, if the ADD could be toggled with a button on the touchscreen, that makes turning it off every time much less of a hassle. Of course, ideally they would just make it so that the ADD would remain ON or OFF, instead of having it default to ON every time the car is turned on.
Can't have it all, I guess.
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Lol. At least 35 buttons on the center stack... that looks like it has a shoe dead center.
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No. They already dumped the hand ebrake now they make it inconvenient to manually gear select...removing driver involvement speaks for the target market.
Touch pad interface absolutely blows too...
Has Acura always had a touchpad? Wonder why they're sticking with it, it was terrible when Lexus did it.
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