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Mazda....I'm losin' that lovin' feeling
- Thread starter SteveBrickNJ
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Yeah, out of necessity and by effectively re-engineering the cars to the point that nothing on it is original.
Weird. Rangers with the M50D don’t have those issues.
Then again, yours might be the highest mileage one on the road.
DW Aficionado
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It's characteristic of that transmission.
Mine is not the highest mileage on the road. I know of many Ford F150/250's on the road with over 500,000 miles on them.
I know of a couple of guys who after their trucks fell apart, removed the 300 straight six and used them for irrigation pump motors.
I find it fascinating.
After a lifetime as a car geek, who has worked in engineering focused firms, an insurer specialized in classic cars (where we had our own mechanics and body shops to train our staff), and for a Detroit Big 3 automaker for years, as well as doing some anonymous side work for automotive blogs... I've never once met a person who considers a transmission that required two rebuilds in almost half a million miles to be a bad transmission.
Even a Toyota Land Cruiser - known for very high long term reliability - would still be on its second engine and transmission rebuild after half a million miles.
DW Aficionado
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Woo, woo, woo..... I'm calling you out on this one. First of all it's not an automatic transmission (which needs rebuilds), it's a gearbox, just a shaft with gears on it. BTW, Toyota's are not all that, they got their reputation from the 1978 to 1982 models. In fact in an interview with the president of Toyota he stated that if they knew how good their cars were at that time, they would never have made them...lol, hows that for customer comes 2nd.
You can literally rebuild a manual transmission. I've had it done on old track toy Mk3 GTI since it was cheaper than replacing it.
DW Aficionado
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I just saw a TV commercial for a new Mazda.
A Mazda CX-70!
Huh!?
So I searched for it online and I found this....
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A Mazda CX-70!
Huh!?
So I searched for it online and I found this....
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Bobby Gabriel
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I agree. Welcome to wdwmagic by the way.
Mazda is a diamond in the rough. Beautiful cars, made in Japan build quality but lacking in dealer network unless one is near a big town, major city.
TheDisneyParksfanC8
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Plus they are making like no effort on in house EVs.
In the next 4 years I hope EVs are not as "pushed" in showrooms and traditional gas powered cars dominate.
No one is pushing EVs. They're merely available for purchase from the same dealers as ICE cars.
My neighbor loves his Tesla. On long trips he puts his car on autopilot , he tilts his driver seat and takes a nap for a few hours.
I've seen this video - people share it with me trying to convince me to change my mind about my already purchased car.
Here's my rebuttal, one point at a time. From someone who worked as an automotive designer for one of the world's largest automakers and who has personally owned 5 EVs.
1- Public Chargers. The idea is to charge at home - public chargers are for road trips only. And in the over a year since this video was released, the charging infrastructure has changed dramatically, first with opening of the most reliable network to almost all EVs (Tesla's supercharger networks), and with competing charging providers improving their reliabilit and uptime.
2- Unpredictable range. Same as driving a gas car - how you drive affects how much range you get. And the winter issues - while real - are overblown, and don't affect all EVs and all drivers as much. Additionally, with the average commute being 42 miles round trip, an EV with a 200 mile stated range at the worst winter should still easily do that twice before needing a full recharge.
3- Tires. This one is BS. You can run regular tires on an EV. And the weight isn't what affects the tire wear - it's the torque. So control your heavy right foot and rotate your tires regularly. Even on my current EV - which has a staggered setup (limiting my rotations to left/right only) and is a torquey beast requiring high performance tires (that tend to have a low life in most cases) - I'm getting about 20k miles to a set. On my previous EV which was nowhere near as torquey, I'd get about 40k miles to a set - and they still had life, I just have higher standards than most drivers on what I consider safe.
4- Repairs. There's not much to repair, since they're simpler machines. And they have giant warranties. This is why dealers hate them - they make almost no money off of servicing them, while having to invest in new equipment an training. However, there are independent shops specialized in them opening to keep the cars running.
5- Unknown long term reliability. I can provide you several examples of them reaching high mileages if you'd like. Or I can tell you that based off of plenty of meetings I attended with the engineers responsible, EV batteries are designed to outlast the car around them. And like with all cars, there will be those that don't make it - an EV reaching six figure mileage isn't scary.
6- Battery failure. Statistically 1.5% of EV batteries will fail in the vehicle's lifespan, and out of those, almost all will be covered by warranty.
7- Resale value. Yes, almost all cars depreciate.
8- Insurance. YMMV - but for me, my rates have stayed pretty consistent. Where there are issues are with EV manufacturers who insist on controlling the entire spare parts supply chain and repair processes (ie, Tesla and Rivian)
9- Price. ICE and EV have nearly hit parity in comparable cars. With incentives, you can get an Equinox EV for less than the gas powered version - and without incentives, the Equinox EV costs about the same as a well equipped gas powered Equinox. Meanwhile a Tesla Model 3 starts out for cheaper than almost all of its ICE luxury midsize sedan competitors.
Conclusion: EVs have their shortcomings, they're not for everyone - but if you're going to post nonsense from an elementary school teacher who moonlights as a youtube car geek, expect to be told the other side from someone who is knows not only about EVs, but about most cars.