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- 2020 CX-5 Signature Azul Metalico
This afternoon (after two months ownership) I was climbing up a twisting mountain road on the way home and came up behind an elderly dump truck with a full load of dead rock. He was crawling along at maybe five miles per hour and I crawled along behind him for a couple of minutes. Then there was a pretty short straight stretch before a blind curve but I knew with the turbo no problem. I pulled out and put the peedal to the metal and...nothing! for a good second or so. I thought Holy mackerel this isn't good! Then the car kicked into first I guess and I got around him before the curve. Also I even had it in "sport" mode thinking I was anticipating such situations. It was definitely un nerving and all I can say is boy I sure miss the stick shift on my last car. The CX-5 has gotten many positive reviews of it's transmission (for some reason) but it sure wouldn't get one from me. Maybe if you do all your driving on flat ground you'd be happy with it but on my twisting mountain road drive home it feels like a bus. I guess the way to overcome it's sluggishness is to keep it in manual mode and upshift/downshift like if you were driving a real manual. It's a shame because I really love just about everything else about the car.