Wicked tiring day and late night last night at the dealership... but the Redfire Metallic Mazda 6S with stick and most of the goodies is home! Yea!
Pics to follow soon; note to self - do not pickup a new car in the middle of a 7" snowfall. Ugg!
Quickie observations:
Excellent handling in the snow - surprising actually. And this is on 17" tires. The TRC is for real; ABS works great.
The car is tight as a drum; responsive and confident. Feels very controlled and has great feel and road response. On the sometimes wet and slushy roads all day today it was a total blast to drive.
Very - exceptionally - quiet even at highway speeds. Given the hullabuloo about engine noise and such I am very happily surprised. What the heck were folks complaining about?
The ACC worked excellent; lots of hot air where you want it. No cold air blowing and the heated seat works perfectly. Not too hot and a nice thing to have a warm bum.
The Bose stereo has excellent imaging; 99.9% of all car stereos favor the left speaker's music in the stereo field... this one has excellent center phantom soundstage. Very cool.
The seat fits totally perfect on my 5'10" 180lb. frame; felt like it was made for me. Loved the steering column moving up/down and in/out - driving position was easy to find and *very* comfortable.
The Homelink rear view mirror is really cool - dims when headlights hit it and the compass is a very nice extra. I laughed out loud when I used my mirror to open my garage door. Cool!
The manual trans is very nice; the clutch does engage fairly high up. It has been 7 years since I had a stick; felt *so* nice to come *home* to one again.
And the absolute coolest thing is the interior guages and controls lighting ujp red; it looks and works so COOL! Hate to be so adolescent about it - but COOL!
Signed, one very happy 35 year old Dad with a wife, mortgage, two sons and one cool Mazda6. Pics to come once I get it washed; man does roadsalt SUCK or what?
Yaaaaaaaaaa Baby!
Pics to follow soon; note to self - do not pickup a new car in the middle of a 7" snowfall. Ugg!
Quickie observations:
Excellent handling in the snow - surprising actually. And this is on 17" tires. The TRC is for real; ABS works great.
The car is tight as a drum; responsive and confident. Feels very controlled and has great feel and road response. On the sometimes wet and slushy roads all day today it was a total blast to drive.
Very - exceptionally - quiet even at highway speeds. Given the hullabuloo about engine noise and such I am very happily surprised. What the heck were folks complaining about?
The ACC worked excellent; lots of hot air where you want it. No cold air blowing and the heated seat works perfectly. Not too hot and a nice thing to have a warm bum.
The Bose stereo has excellent imaging; 99.9% of all car stereos favor the left speaker's music in the stereo field... this one has excellent center phantom soundstage. Very cool.
The seat fits totally perfect on my 5'10" 180lb. frame; felt like it was made for me. Loved the steering column moving up/down and in/out - driving position was easy to find and *very* comfortable.
The Homelink rear view mirror is really cool - dims when headlights hit it and the compass is a very nice extra. I laughed out loud when I used my mirror to open my garage door. Cool!
The manual trans is very nice; the clutch does engage fairly high up. It has been 7 years since I had a stick; felt *so* nice to come *home* to one again.
And the absolute coolest thing is the interior guages and controls lighting ujp red; it looks and works so COOL! Hate to be so adolescent about it - but COOL!
Signed, one very happy 35 year old Dad with a wife, mortgage, two sons and one cool Mazda6. Pics to come once I get it washed; man does roadsalt SUCK or what?
Yaaaaaaaaaa Baby!