I bought a new -5
 

Unfortunately for me, it's for the wife, so it's a CX-5, not an MX-5. Car shopping, even with the internet, is still a frustrating experience.

Saturday, we went to a dealer, drove one, made an offer and they tried to blow smoke up my ass. We walked out. Today, the sales manager called and offered it $500 UNDER my lowest offer.

enjoy car. We bought a new 2020. I was just running the numbers on what I could get out of it -- but we'll probably just run this one to the ground.

This one is a 2022 with 34k on the clock. Wife loves it, I haven't driven it yet. I'm just the checkbook.

There are 2 people here at work that have the same thing. Both are on their second one. After having a vehicle for years and going out to get the same model speaks well of them.

I had a 2014 that I kept for almost 7 years, 180k miles. Nothing went wrong, just routine maintenance stuff, so we bought another in 2020, with turbo. 65k miles and no problems so far.
It’s my wife’s (and dog’s), she loves it.

I mean it's a car. There's a ton on it i do not like.

The seats are miserably uncomfortable -- at the 3 hour mark, my ass is done. I now travel with a seat pad in the very back to get out for longer trips.

The infotainment system is glitchy and slow and stupid. When I play music through AndriodAuto or Apple, the sound is terrible and I have to crank the bass. But if you play radio, you have to turn the bass down. It's like they turn off the amplifier or something.

My turbo model seems to eat oil, and I get the oil light every 5K or so and end up dumping in close to a quart. I'm only at 25K so far.

I hate that the passenger mirror doesn't lower when in reverse. I also hate you need the Signature model to get parking sensors / birdseye package. I didn't want the ugly brown leather interior -- I specifically wanted the white leather but also parking sensors.

Mine has the known service advisory issue where the front brake pads make noise when you first brake in either direction. Apparently the pads are too small for the retainers, and the fix is literally adding a shim/grease on the clips to dampen the noise. But I'm too lazy to take the wheels off and fix.

Pros: turbo and awd. Handles snow great. Peppy. I've driven a few other smaller suvs and the puny 4-clys are a joke -- we could never own something that can't even get to and maintain 70mph.

Also if you remove the passenger seat you can haul things that are slightly long:

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but then i learned you can lay the seat basically flat and do the same
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Otherwise, it's been trouble free.

We needed a third car since my son has started his second co-op job. Grandma offered her 2015 Rav 4. That thing is such a flimsy shitbox. After driving the CX-5 (which feels so much more solid), she was hooked.