Mazda CX-9: the balanced quality

Mazda CX-9 — not simply rigid six-seater crossover, but also punishment to the insurance companies.

All the week long I went on Mazda CX-9.

But what for to spend it is so much time to understand an obvious thing: any Mazda is very predicted. It is not necessary to puzzle over this product.

— The buyer receives that ordered. Mazda the rigid?
— Yes.
— Tries to be sports?
— Naturally.
— Japanese car for simple businessmen?
— Yes! Therefore high-grade rigidity and sports in the car is not present.
— It is bad?
— No way!

Fine variant for those who wants the American type a trunk with the European options. Who else offers something similar? Volvo with the XS90, Honda with "suitcase" Pilot and Subaru with Tribeca. I would name here Hyundai iX55, but European in the car a zero with a stick. Audi Q7? And what, still someone presumes the given car?

Itself Mazda seriously writes down to itself in competitors Nissan Pathfinder, Toyota LC200, Volkswagen Touareg and BMW X5. Punks who like to walk crowd could make such company only, it is not important with whom. Volkswagen does not make cars with three rows of seats, BMW and Nissan Pathfinder too the five-seater. And Toyota and at all frank SUV with not cutting back bridge: how typical crossover Mazda CX-9 which does not have even central blocking can compete to such car? We at all do not know precisely, whether experts in marketing Mazda wish to confuse us, whether wander in darkness or, maybe, were gave to the power of imaginations.

Full drive Mazda is in slavery at the fifteen-centimetric steel cylinder filled by disks. At technical conference Mazda I saw the given engine in a cut.
Yes it is tight, but is in one case with back differential to be cooled by oil. As soon as the temperature reaches 100 degrees, disks are disconnected — and Mazda becomes front-wheel. As soon as the temperature falls to 60 degrees — a full drive again in a system. But whether it is necessary to worry? It happens only at extreme to an axle box. And to slip to the car electronics does not give.

From this, that I have heard at technical conference Mazda, it yet the most interesting. Still was about safety. By internal rules Mazda after an emergency case in the car everything varies almost, that is connected with passive safety. To the expense go not only belts and safety pillows. Conducting varies even: after on conducting the electric signal to safety pillows will arrive, — electroconducting is not supposed any more by safety standards. Even the module of management is considered pillows non-working. It is interesting, that at Mazda and Ford one supplier of this module, but by rules Ford the given module change only after the fifth emergency case. The insurance companies tear on themselves hair: after all all postemergency expenses, basically, lay down on them.

So, Mazda not only capacious and reliable, but also the safe car.

But how the car goes on impassability?
On presentation in Grenoble I was convinced of it personally.
Mazda reliably copes even on the big speed — to 180 km/h. Perhaps, I even would make the car chassis hardly more stupid to add smoothness of a course and to soften sharpness. But for what then here zoom-zoom? It is impossible to understand, that in a reality the technology «zoom-zoom» in similar cars introduces. This concept pull on them as a narrow stocking — too it is somehow forced...