Test Drive Mazda CX-5 since 2012 Crossover

Test Drive Mazda CX-5: Heavenly Science

Despite the fact that the new crossovers of Mazda CX-5 have already begun to meet in the metropolitan streets, the Russian presentation for the press took place only last week. Get acquainted with high technology Mazda We went not somewhere, but straight in Georgia.


Perhaps, for the Russian representative office, Mazda became a real hobby to choose the countries of the former USSR, where to arrange a full-fledged presentation to akin to the present feat. Still in memory of last year's Test Mazda CX-7 in Armenia, where Mazdovtsy delivered cars with some unthinkable ways. And now Georgia, the relationship with which it seems to be settled, but tensions still remained.

By arrival at the parking lot of Tbilisi Airport, Mazda CX-5 crossovers were waiting for us, which are currently the most modern and technically advanced cars in the model range of the Japanese company. After all, it was CX-5 for the first to follow the whole range of SkyActiv heavenly technologies, including new gasoline and diesel engines, as well as 6-speed mechanical and automatic transmission. But first things first.


With its appearance, the Mazda CX-5 serial crossover is obliged to MINAGI concept, and in turn, in turn, the new Kodo concept - the soul of the movement, which will now be followed by all the new products of the Japanese company. Mazda6 queue.

I don't know if there is a similarity to the Mazda CX-5 in the appearance of the Mazda CX-5, which, during the presentation, said Marketing director Mazda Motor Rus Andrei Piskov. In my opinion, everyone can see their animal in Mazda, whether it is a predatory cat or graceful antelope. What a hundred percent is traced here is a new direction of the Madovsky design of Kodo spirit of movement. The appearance of the CX-5 will be the conceptual crossover Mazda Minagi, and now the Kodo philosophy will become part of the design of all new Mazda.


Adaptive xenon headlights are offered only as an option for 33 thousand rubles. The safe braking system in the city (analogue of the City Safety from Volvo) is installed, starting with the Touring configuration, and the 19-inch discs are equal to the parking sensors - the prerogative of the top version of the Sport.

Good design is almost half the success of the model in Russia. And in this discipline, the CX-5 ambition is high as ever. The predatory face with the open mouth of the radiator grid and a strict look of the linase headlights, beautiful rubies of the rear lights, the rapid silhouette with the appetizing circuit breeders, subjected to plastic body kit: externally Mazda CX-5 is good and in detail, and in general.


The appearance of Mazda CX-5 was warmly adopted by the Russian audience. It remains to wait like Mazda soon will be able to satisfy the needs of our market, where after the first month of sales of the turn on the cars stretched to six months.

Salon meets comfortable, moderate hard chairs with a good profile and lateral support. In the top configuration of Sport, they are trimmed with perforated skin, and the driver's seat is equipped with an electric drive. Landing is quite high, the steering wheel is adjustable in two planes, but the longitudinal range is missing.


In the cabin, finishing materials improved, a new steering wheel, dashboard and a full-fledged multimedia system screen appeared. Climatic installation management has become visual, and its screen is decorated in the style of the latest BMW models.

The new interior sets a new level of finishing quality. The front of the front panel is made of soft and pleasant to the touch of plastic, and the quality of the door trim is pulled. A new climate control unit has appeared with a small screen in the style of new BMW models and a steering wheel with a modified location of the keys. The dashboard lost the usual deep wells, and its backlight was changed with the defiantly red on the measured white. But the most important thing is the appearance on the central console of the 5.8-inch screen of the multimedia system, which was so lacked by Mazdovodam. You can manage this farm with the help of a touch screen or a joystick between the front chairs, and the AUX and USB connectors are already in the basic configuration.


The dashboard from now on pleases with a pleasant white backlight, profile and side support are good chairs. You can control the multimedia system and navigation both using the touch screen and the joystick located between the front seats. To the left of the steering wheel, the key block was attached to the innovative options that the Mazda models had not yet had. Among them is the start / stop system, tracking tracking and monitoring blind zones.

Rear is pretty spacious and in the legs, and in width. The sofa is divided into three parts that can be folded independently from each other. When opening the trunk lid, the curtain rises with it, the volume of the cargo compartment is 403 liters, and the rear seats are folded, forming a smooth floor.


Rear in CX-5 is spacious. The sofa is divided into three parts that fold, forming a smooth floor. The volume of the trunk is average - 403 liters.

Initially, only gasoline versions are available in Russia, which are equipped with the latest 2.0-liter SkyActiv-G unit. The main chip of the new celestial aggregate is unusually high for gasoline engines. Compression ratio equal to 14: 1. At the same time, the problem with detonation, which consistently occurs with a high degree of compression, Mazda engineers decided by using a rich working mixture and late ignition. As you know, the higher the level of compression, the required the motor to the quality of fuel, but also last fall at skyactive lectures, Mazdovtsy assured that their motors completely passed tests by Russian fuel and ready for battle.


While only the gasoline version of the CX-5 is supplied to us, equipped with a new 2.0-liter SkyActive motor and a 6-speed automatic transmission. The explosive character CX-5 will not call. In addition, Russian cars are defined from 165 to 150 hp

Interestingly, a deformed crossovers with a compression ratio of 13: 1 are delivered to the North America market, adapted to the 92nd gasoline. It turns out that Mazda engineers trusted to our fuel and brought European cars to us? As it turned out, not quite. For the Russian Market, the Japanese prepared a separate version with another engine management program. As a result, the power of a gasoline engine is not 165 hp, as in Europe, and 150 hp Surely the main reason is the reduced transport tax, or still Mazda Lukavit, when he says that believes in the quality of Russian gasoline?

For a 150-strong motor overclocking dynamics are quite decent. In general, according to its behavior, CX-5 reminded me of Mazda6 with a 2.0-liter MZR motor and automatic transmission, where the sluggish bottoms are compensated by azart at high revs. Approximately the same shows the crossover. While the tachometer arrow will stop 3000 rpm, CX-5 is driving as much as possible, lazily responds to the gas pedal, trying to save fuel. As soon as the frontier is passed, excitement appears with the burden. And yet, if I possess the CX-5, first of all, with the help of chip tuning, I would try to return to her European 165 hp After all, a structurally motor has not changed: in the ECU only poured the new engine control program.

If you go to flooded, then by 40-50 km / h 6-speed automatic gearbox SkyActive-Drive pins the fourth. Switches automatic transmission smoothly and timely. Like most modern transmissions, the crossroads per step below occurs almost instantly, and two already with a delay. This is just right for the metropolis and quite enough for the track, but plaaking on mountain serpentine such economical settings interfere with. It saves honest manual mode, allowing you to unscrew the tachometer arrow to the limit and is more efficient to slow down the engine.

On the second day of the test, a curious feature was found. I stop on the rise, let go of the brake, and, as it should be relying a regular machine, SkyActive-Drive holds a car without giving to roll back. But after a couple of seconds Batz, and we rub back! Driving around the meter, Mazda stalled. Maybe glitch electronics? I trial again. All repeats. Apparently, it was not for nothing that the presentation was told that the new box combines the characteristics and machine gun and mechanics. Together with the locking of the hydrotransformer in the entire range of speeds, the sensations of the direct communication of the motor with wheels and the best fuel efficiency of the automatic transmission inherited and the rolling price back.


CX-5 rulits good. Despite the visible roll in turning the crossover is stable. The brakes are also good.

But the advantages of SkyActive-Drive are obvious. CX-5 reacts to gas cheerfully and in all-wheel drive modification accelerates to 100 km / h in 9.8 seconds, and the car with the front-wheel drive does this for 9.3 seconds, not yielding the version with the mechanics or a split of a second! Good and consumption. Even during the races on serpents, the on-board computer showed about 8 liters per 100 km of way, and on the track the flow and at all lowered to 6.5 liters.

The electric powerlier increases the force on the steering wheel linearly and predictably. Of course, there is no sharpness of a coach in a coach, but informativeness is good and so. The crossover willingly follow the turns of the ram, which pleases adequate reverse effort.

Smooth straight Mazda CX-5 keeps perfectly, does not come down with lateral wind and does not dance in the kolas. Small irregularities and road joints Crossover extinguishes better than passenger Mazda and senior CX-7, but the usual kicks to the salon still reach, and deep bumps respond to the rear suspension.

In favor of the best smoothness of the stroke, the suspension had to dismiss a little, so the turns are accompanied by noticeable rolls. Despite this, stability on the blurry with a margin, the arc Mazda CX-5 draws, as if a cirkel on paper is correct and clearly. The brakes are also good, to dose the effort on the pedals is convenient at any speed. Hanging and noise insulation. Now at idle grows in the cabin is not heard at all, and at the speed of the passengers, only the aerodynamic twist of the side mirrors violate.

Together with SkyActive technologies on Mazda CX-5, a number of new electronic systems debuted. Among them is a system to prevent accidents similar to the City Safety from Volvo. It works in the range from 4 to 30 km / h and using special sensors helps to avoid accidents at speeds up to 15 km / h, and if the speedometer arrow was above minimizes them. In addition, in the equipment of Mazda there is a road marking tracking system, monitoring of blind zones, Russified navigation, adaptive bi-xenon, Bose audio system and rear-view camera.

The price tag is competitive. Basic front-wheel drive CX-5 with MCPP in the configuration of the Direct costs 929,000 rubles. Russia's most popular all-wheel drive version of Touring with a good level of equipment is estimated at 1,210,000 rubles, and for the top-level fitting of the Sport with 19-inch discs, the system of invisible access, the rear view camera, the driver's chamber's electric drive and the leather lounge are asked 1,304,000 rubles.

It is more affordable than popular Toyota RAV4 and VW Tiguan, and only a little more expensive Kia Sportage. The advantages of heavenly technologies have already rated Russian buyers who for the first month of sales made more than 5 thousand orders. Sell \u200b\u200bmore dealers still interfere with quotas, and now orders are accepted only at the end of August. Well, a good start, especially since in the future, the production of Mazda CX-5, as well as the new Mazda6, should be established on a joint company Sollers in Vladivostok.


In order to organize a presentation in Georgia, the Russian representative office of Mazda Motor Rus has done a lot of work. For this, a separate respect.

 

A source: Carclub.ru.