Test drive Mazda Mazda 5 (Premacy) 2005 - 2008 Minivan

Five Five

Even one gaze accidentally thrown on this car is enough for any of the most burned bachelor to make matrimonial plans.

The Japanese did not disappoint again. The five, like all other mazes of the 21st century, turned out to be bright and expressive and again without the detriment of functionality! It feels that if a tram suddenly appears under this brand or, say, what a cargo carrier, and they will look swiftly and cheerful.

Nevertheless, at my first time, five is primarily a beautiful car, and only then a practical family car. Although, I admit, the family word in our language unequivocally gives it to incomprehensible concepts. The epithet with a deliberately positive charge over many years of use has gained pale torture: this is either the entire size bicycle wrench of the Soviet period, or even worse the spacious cowardice of a free shape and the rejected sexuality.

But not in the case of Mazda in vain, or something, the Japanese had been cherished over the past years, cherished, and still showed off a new generation of fashionable cars with pronounced sports notes? And family sport here these are, first of all, funny starts, and not layered linen.

Me, I, I, I, I plus me and me

The design of the five has much in common with the nozzle Mazda-3 and Ford-Foc-Si Max. From the first, she inherited the general style and a 2-liter motor, and from the second form factor compactwane. But the main thing is the salon, which neither the Si-Max, nor all the more, the threek has as many as 7 seats! Moreover, it was precisely that as much as 170-centimeter, I calmly leaked to the third row of seats, where I sat down without any yoga, but quite enough. And if the big uncles fit there on exhalation, and with a long trip they will flow in a variety of limbs, then children of primary and secondary school age will feel quite free. And comfortable, moreover: the cup holders will have one at a person at their disposal.

In the trunk mode, the seats are breaking in half and form a completely flat surface with the backs, nothing but nylon loops without betraying their presence. You can continue the game in the van and fold the seats of the second row and then their backs will continue the perfect surface set by the trunk.
 
If it turns out to be too closely on the very rear seats, then the middle -row chairs can be slightly moved forward
 
In this situation, a bicycle easily fit into the trunk


The rear seat is removed into one reception, except for manipulations with the headrest

The principle of transformation of the salon themselves the creators call Karakuri (not to be confused with Harakiri!). Usually this word indicates any mechanism that causes surprise. But what is surprising in the car? But what: if you sacrifice the most convenient in the world the central place in the second row, overturning the pillow inside the left chair, you can get the passage to the back row, which will also be quite suitable for transporting long -meters. And from the bowels of the right seat, boxing with cup holders is removed into the light of God. To the heap, each of the chairs moves back and forth and has an adjustment of the angle of inclination of the back.

In general, the five is a real record holder for the number of all kinds of shelves, cup holders, boxes and buxes, pockets and pockets, in which you can endlessly lose valuable objects of a real lambers' real dream. We set out the goal of photographing every Nibelnikob, but, fortunately, we quickly ended with shots. So in the photographs you will not see everything, cheers. I am sure that the owner of Mazda-5 will from time to time to find more and more new hiding places ...

Here it is, that very Karakuri, in action: the insides of the seats are cross -line

You can shove something dirty here. For example, gloves or a rag

Boxing between the chairs is sensible, but not everyone will like the armrest
 
There is another interesting feature of the five shifts of the rear doors. The solution is undoubtedly successful. The convenience of the doors was checked, having driven the Mazda to the parking lot, the driver can no longer go out, and the passengers are striking at ease from the passenger compartment and back. The trunk door, which opens two -stage: in order not to enter with a stunning contact, the successful users can raise the door for another ten centimeters beyond the defense.

Just make an opening

Now about the driver. Since we had a car in the top configuration on the test, instead of the keys in my pocket lay a small plastic card. You can open the car and press the button, but the urgent need for this was not possible to get into the bowels of the compactwane and simply pulling the door handle: the car was aware that the card was with me. She did not forget about this and when I started the engine with a handle, which was established at the site of the ignition lock. This is convenient, a contactless access system! You get used to the good quickly already returning the Mazda to the dealer, I almost broke off the door handle from my car, twitting it, not half -guided, to half death.
 
The combination of devices on the five is nothing superfluous!

For $ 380, you can order a contactless access system with a card instead of a key
 

Loading behind the wheel, not far from the purely passenger, perhaps the pedals are felt somehow lower and further than usual or something. But there are no punctures on ergonomics, with the exception of the right armrest that prevents the lever of the box. The short stick itself is located on a cliff protruding from the central panel. I hovered the transmission lever, the moves are too big, but you can’t dig up to the clarity of inclusion: you find the desired unmistakable. And with pedals, in principle, complete understanding.

The leather steering wheel took the five from a treshka with a six along with the music control buttons. It is a pity that in the kit Wenchik did not receive a magical red illumination of the torpedo and the dashboard exuded a boring yellow-green light. Well, the decor for aluminum in our time is a completely ordinary thing. Especially for Mazda.

Actually funny starts

Two gasoline liters of a working volume that gives rise to almost one and a half hundred horses, for a relatively small car, is more than enough. You can go at the moment, or you can twist the speed, if there is a mood to cheer up or listen to the engine with every new thousand on the tachometer of the engine voice is becoming more and more intrusive. The five in general, the car is not a megatic solo performance of the motor accompanies the backing for the processing defects of the asphalt of the suspension and the well-distinguishable percussion of rare pebbles on the wheeled arches.

But the smoothness of the course is very nothing: according to the sensations, Mazda-5 is an order of magnitude more comfortable than the donor three. At the same time, the Japanese in some incomprehensible way came up with so that a high car in corners goes almost without rolls, after all! And the steering is excellent: the five demonstrates a transparent zero and without the slightest thought reacts to the turns of the steering wheel, providing the driver with absolutely reliable information about what angle the wheels are turned to. It turns out great!

Mindful of the exclusively pacifist purpose of the machine, I conducted the experiment with the disconnection of the system of dynamic stabilization purely for the box. The checkbox would be satisfied with the exceeding the adverse properties of the tires, the stage of the rubber screech, smoothly turning into the demolition of the front axis, occurs. And when the electronic control is returned, you can do without screeching completely. The car will be rebuilt. The family will be satisfied, and the diapers are clean. And motorsport does not even smell here.

Family prices and values

The most affordable of the fives will be with a 1.8-liter engine about 115 forces, on a handle and exclusively in a 5-seater version. Already in the basic configuration there will be ABS with an electronic distribution of efforts and an emergency braking amplifier, 6 airbags, immobilizer, an electric drive of the front glasses and mirrors and a simple radio receiver. However, it makes sense to pay $ 2000 and get a 7-seater car with a richer equipment list and ESP system. But to overpay for a 2-liter engine there is no special sense with it, compactwhen wins less than a second to accelerate to hundreds and only 14 km/h in the maximum clip. In your opinion, are they worth $ 2500 with others equal? In the maximum configuration, our asset pulled $ 28,700 plus an additional $ 450 for painting with a metallic and $ 380 per card instead of the ignition key.

Interestingly, the basic SI-Max costs only $ 17,950. But even a powerful 2-liter Ford will be cheaper than the most affordable oka! In addition, a relative can be ordered with automatic transmission or, for example, with a diesel engine, which, in principle, is impossible for a Japanese woman. In this situation, only a fan of the brand with an exacerbated feeling of beautiful will decide on the purchase of the five. Or the athleticemyanin, who firmly decided that Wen must be multi -seater and undivided with practical shift doors. Aw, are there such?

But there is also a backwater at least seven -seater, by the way! This one is already closer to Mazda, but it has a wider line of engines, including a crazy 200-horsepower turbo engine and machine gun. There is something to think about ...


 

A source: Magazine buy a car [12/2006]