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I made my initial comment and vote back when this thread was first posted.
At that time I only had my 2017 6 to drive around in. I always thought it was fairly peppy, and often used sport mode to liven things up a bit.
Since then, I purchased a new Kia Stinger. Top line AWD with the 3.3l twin turbo V6.
Holy crap Batman. Makes driving my 6 feel like I'm going uphill all the time. It now feels painfully slow, especially when I've just come out of the Stinger.
The Stinger has sport mode as well, but it does a lot more in that mode than the Mazda will ever do.
Now I just drive the Mazda in normal mode and rarely use sport mode.
This is exactly why I don't want to test drive a Tesla Model X. I'm not a fan of Tesla in general for reasons unrelated to this specific model, but the acceleration (3.8s 0-60) alone would probably have me signing by the X, lol. Puts my 7.0s+ to shame haha.
That said, there certainly is something about driving a "slow" car fast.