I realised that I just bought the car that used to drive in the video, same rego, CEM582, Ringwood Mazda told me that it was driven by Mazda Oz executives, lol.
I have a CX-5 and it has a touchscreen. Default setting turns if off when you drive but when stationary you can use it. As the other guys said, you can enable it whilst driving too. I did and it's great, saves me a lot of trouble with Apple Carplay.
Man, I wish Mazda would've sold this in Europe as well. We only get the smaller CX-5. And now the CX-60 but the styling of the CX-8 is much better imho.
I’m not sure the updated ones are having the same issues the first of them did. There doesn’t seem to be many complaints online. How are they being driven and maintained? I’ve got 30,000km on my diesel CX5. I’m doing mostly open road driving. Time will tell I guess.
It’s nice but nothing amazing. For 65k I expect more. No air vents in 3rd row means they really can’t be used by kids who get car sick. The dial and no touch screen is frustrating and lack of digital dash is disappointing. This against a Sorrento sport plus is no competition
Why do you need a digital dash? Also touch screens are so overrated in my opinion. The dial control is so simple. Mazda do it well. I’m not a fan of the Korean build quality and interior materials. They always age much faster than Japanese…
Dunno what the Japanese are doing! Really badly slipping behind when Japanese cars been around longer.. Renew the Toyota 2000GT with modern amendments to interior and exterior and technology, if Toyota were going to do that I'd really hope that would use some valuable time and genuine perfection this car with what its name is known for in the Japanese car history, Id be absolutely amazing if they did this and used be technology.
