Bidding on a Mazda 5 today

I have a dealer doing the bidding today. New DD for the Mrs, since our newest cars are about to be 15 years old.

Here is the long standing GRM Mazda5 owners thread if you have not seen it before.

My wife DDs a 2010 Sport automatic with just 65k miles on it (bought new as a left-over when the 2012's came out.)  There is no 2011 Mazda5.  

In reply to John Welsh :

Thanks for the reminder, I've been following that from the beginning, but forgot about it.

I will be posting there if this works out.

Good luck!

Good luck!  The Mrs. loves hers. 

Good luck. Bought ours new 2012, for $19,500. Touring. Have 109K miles on it as of this morning.

My 2012 was special ordered new at $17,500. 206,000 miles later I’m still happy with it. It has driven 100 miles since April since I just swapped the clutch and is for sale at $3800 now that it’s back together.

2009 GT with 162K. Been our go to for just about everything.

We didn't get that one, or the next one, but the search is over. All I know is that it is the last generation, silver with a black interior. 

Oh, and automatic transmission; it's not for me so my entreaty for 3 pedals was overruled. 

It's arriving tomorrow, so then I'll find out what year, trim level, mileage, etc.

In reply to Floating Doc :

Have faith! The Mazda auto has a manual gate in the shifter that is actually full manual. It will bounce the engine off of redline forever, no upshifting until you tell it. It won't downshift if it would cause an over-rev, otherwise it'll pop back down when you tell it as well. Works great! The only auto shift it does at all in manual mode is selecting 1st when you come to a *complete* stop. Also, because Mazda, the shifts are correct, towards you (down) for upshifts and away from you (up) for downshifts, like a sequential gearbox.

Mine is an auto, it's been better than the shift-kitted 4R70W that my P71 had.

Javelin said:

In reply to Floating Doc :

Have faith! The Mazda auto has a manual gate in the shifter that is actually full manual. It will bounce the engine off of redline forever, no upshifting until you tell it. It won't downshift if it would cause an over-rev, otherwise it'll pop back down when you tell it as well. Works great! The only auto shift it does at all in manual mode is selecting 1st when you come to a *complete* stop. Also, because Mazda, the shifts are correct, towards you (down) for upshifts and away from you (up) for downshifts, like a sequential gearbox.

Mine is an auto, it's been better than the shift-kitted 4R70W that my P71 had.

Sounds great, can't wait to see it.