Getting ready to do a deal on a 2019 Black Signature or Reserve. Trading my 2016.5 CX5 which has 70k miles on it. This is my primary "work" vehicle. I travel a lot for my business and I am trying to get in a to a new vehicle every 2 to 3 years. Test drove the new turbos and they are sweet. If you are shopping make sure the dealer is putting high test in the vehicle. I bet a lot of them are not and you are not getting the full experience.
Kind of a toss up between the 2 now. Still am not sure the signature is worth the extra 2k. But, I do like the leather seats and its only about another $25 bucks a month.
Upon purchasing it wasn*t a tough call for us as we wanted top of the line for this car going in. After having the Signature awhile I think it*s a closer call but if I had to do it again, I*d still go Sig. Some thoughts...
-The darker wheels are sweet. Sounds crazy but for me they are almost worth the jump to the Sig.
- The Napa leather seats are ok but the basic sorta-leather are equally nice too. The dark brown color of the Nappa doesn*t go well with the black interior, it*s too close, needs to be more contrasting.
- The 360* view is nice and cool, and helpful, but when paired with the smaller and lower-clarity monitor in the CX5 some of it gets lost.
- Parking sensors are a nice-to-have. Some users will find them absolutely necessary, others could do without, depending on where and how they use their car.
- The frameless rear view mirror is nice to look at but there*s no functional change, and it*s still a mirror.
- LED interior lighting is nice but it*s just interior lighting.
- Wood trim on dash is so small you don*t even notice it.
Imho maybe just comes down to ones personal affordability or personal value of that extra $2000.
I do know that weeks after we bought it (when it should be getting boring) we are still really loving this car!