I believe this piece of news is important enough that all Mazda5 owners deserve to know. Therefore I post it here as a new thread.
The reason I post onto the other thread that I started because I want the existing members who participated in that thread can get a notification for the news.
As for the test results, I don't have high expectation for the SOL test, but the rest of the test scores are just quite disappointing. I "F Mazda" because I think Mazda knows this all along, and they lucked out and kept selling Mazda5 without improving its safety because no one conducted any test on it so Mazda just kept carrying over an old design year after year. Looking at all the new models Mazda has worked on, they should know a thing or two about building a safe car. It is just very disappointing that Mazda does not proactively bring any of those newer, safer technology to Mazda5 just because there were no crash test, and kept selling Mazda5 as is.
If IIHS have tested the mazda5 sooner, say @ 2012, we should have a safer 2014 model by now.
This concludes my frustration to the situation, and Mazda has failed as a responsible car manufacturer for neglecting the safety of new families by not improving their family van in the absence of IIHS or any 3rd party crash testing party holding them accountable.