To this day, I will never ever ever touch any Mazda products. All thanks to their dumb fucking zoom zoom advertising campaign about 20 years ago that involved their adverts playing twice during every ad break. Plus they were sponsoring shit, so it was everywhere. I feel like I still have PTSD from it. Fuck Mazda.
I’d say it was TV that gave you the PTSD. I bailed on TV at about 8 years old (28 years ago…) and every time I’ve been with people watching it since I was always amazed just how awful it all really was. But I guess it’s just what becomes normal if you grow up with it
Oh yeah it’s definitely TV. But this was before the days of Netflix and shit and before I had uncapped wifi. I don’t watch standard TV anymore either and when I do see it, same reaction as you. It’s probably a bit different from country to country but I think standard TV is mostly geared towards older people now too because most under 40 have unplugged by now.
I can’t speak for modern Mazdas but I got a lowest trim manual, power nothing, in the mid naughties and it was still going strong 15 years later. So for all of their marketing annoyance it was absolutely a good product.
You got it when they were still creating rustbuckets then. The newer ones have much stronger bodywork and don’t oxidize within 3 minutes upon seeing salted roads. Can’t speak for the long term reliability though, don’t know anyone who’s owned one for too long (only friend who owned a newish Mazda traded it in for a Volvo V90 after a few years because space)
I am tempted by new Mazdas because they now have some real nice engines available and they don’t do the whole “everything is touch” thing because apparently they actually care about safety… BUT… I’m salty that they don’t sell the CX90 here, only the CX80. I could really use the extra space nowadays.
Yeah, that’s why I didn’t get another Mazda. I have a 70 pound dog that goes nearly everywhere with me. I needed actual cargo space and Mazda does not do cargo space. I can’t speak to the rusting, the snow place I lived in used cinders instead of salt. I can speak to normal ass sedans with manuals driving right past fancy 4 wheel drive vehicles in the snow. That was hilarious.
I can speak to normal ass sedans with manuals driving right past fancy 4 wheel drive vehicles in the snow.
That’s always been more about skill and tires than drivetrain I’d say. The excess weight of a 4 wheel drive SUV actually puts it at a disadvantage in most situations that don’t involve acceleration, too. They still have the same amount of braking wheels, but more weight to brake, etc.
The problem usually was acceleration though. Specifically way too much gas and spinning their tires until they’re on an ice patch instead of snow. But yeah, definitely a skill issue. Still hilarious.
Your manual transmission might also have helped there tbh. It gives more granular control of acceleration at low speeds if you know what you’re doing - which, if you drove a manual transmission for years, you probably do.
Lol yeah they seem like decent cars actually. But I made myself a promise back then to never give them a cent and I tend to stick to my principles (or at least like to think I do). It’s just a personal thing though. And also kinda funny, I think.
To this day, I will never ever ever touch any Mazda products. All thanks to their dumb fucking zoom zoom advertising campaign about 20 years ago that involved their adverts playing twice during every ad break. Plus they were sponsoring shit, so it was everywhere. I feel like I still have PTSD from it. Fuck Mazda.
I’d say it was TV that gave you the PTSD. I bailed on TV at about 8 years old (28 years ago…) and every time I’ve been with people watching it since I was always amazed just how awful it all really was. But I guess it’s just what becomes normal if you grow up with it
Oh yeah it’s definitely TV. But this was before the days of Netflix and shit and before I had uncapped wifi. I don’t watch standard TV anymore either and when I do see it, same reaction as you. It’s probably a bit different from country to country but I think standard TV is mostly geared towards older people now too because most under 40 have unplugged by now.
I can’t speak for modern Mazdas but I got a lowest trim manual, power nothing, in the mid naughties and it was still going strong 15 years later. So for all of their marketing annoyance it was absolutely a good product.
You got it when they were still creating rustbuckets then. The newer ones have much stronger bodywork and don’t oxidize within 3 minutes upon seeing salted roads. Can’t speak for the long term reliability though, don’t know anyone who’s owned one for too long (only friend who owned a newish Mazda traded it in for a Volvo V90 after a few years because space)
I am tempted by new Mazdas because they now have some real nice engines available and they don’t do the whole “everything is touch” thing because apparently they actually care about safety… BUT… I’m salty that they don’t sell the CX90 here, only the CX80. I could really use the extra space nowadays.
Yeah, that’s why I didn’t get another Mazda. I have a 70 pound dog that goes nearly everywhere with me. I needed actual cargo space and Mazda does not do cargo space. I can’t speak to the rusting, the snow place I lived in used cinders instead of salt. I can speak to normal ass sedans with manuals driving right past fancy 4 wheel drive vehicles in the snow. That was hilarious.
That’s always been more about skill and tires than drivetrain I’d say. The excess weight of a 4 wheel drive SUV actually puts it at a disadvantage in most situations that don’t involve acceleration, too. They still have the same amount of braking wheels, but more weight to brake, etc.
The problem usually was acceleration though. Specifically way too much gas and spinning their tires until they’re on an ice patch instead of snow. But yeah, definitely a skill issue. Still hilarious.
Your manual transmission might also have helped there tbh. It gives more granular control of acceleration at low speeds if you know what you’re doing - which, if you drove a manual transmission for years, you probably do.
Lol yeah they seem like decent cars actually. But I made myself a promise back then to never give them a cent and I tend to stick to my principles (or at least like to think I do). It’s just a personal thing though. And also kinda funny, I think.
Fair enough