So in this forums current iteration I am very anti separating the gens.
However... it would be much easier to separate it out if the forum was setup like this:
MAZDA GENERAL TOPICS
-Lounge
-Mazda News
-General Body Work and Detailing
-Wheels & Tires
-General Audio Information
-Buy
-Sell
MAZDA 3
-Help & Support
-Mods & Tunes
CX-5
-Help & Support
-Mods & Tunes
Then you could add a Gen 2 and it's only 2 more forums.
Boom boom boom down the line. Keep it simple.
Every forum having it's own lounge, that needs to go away. I hate that about this forum. We should be mixing with ALL Mazda owners, not just us. I mean, some CX9 owners hang out here because the 9 forum is so dead. I'd love to see pics of other Mazda's. Read stuff from other owners. I don't want to check 15 different forums just to see what the CX3 people are talking about.
Having an ALL MAZDA news section just makes the most sense instead of posting all NEWS stories in the CX5 lounge.
At the VERY least, couldn't Accessories & Appearance be lumped with Infotainment?
Couldn't Wheels Tires be merged to Engine & Tranny and called something else?
This forum has been around a long time and exploded in popularity with the CX5.
I get that it would be an enormous undertaking. So much so that I can't even imagine anyone wanting to tackle that job.
With all due respect. Obviously I love our community. It's almost too big to change now.
/edit/ One last thing. A lot of people here are new to Mazda and have no idea if something is specific to Gen 1 or 2. So there's that, too.