Hi All: I’m new to the sub and would like some feedback on the Mazda CX-90. We’re buying my wife a new SUV and it caught my eye, but I’ve never owned a Mazda before so I was hoping for some advice on what you like/don’t like, etc. Thank you!
Hi All: I’m new to the sub and would like some feedback on the Mazda CX-90. We’re buying my wife a new SUV and it caught my eye, but I’ve never owned a Mazda before so I was hoping for some advice on what you like/don’t like, etc. Thank you!
One of the weird things I’m still getting used to with my new Mazda is the I-stop function. To save gas, the vehicle will actually turn off the engine when it detects that you’ve stopped for a long time. I think it determines that by how long and how heavily you’ve been stepping on the brake pedal. You can turn this functionality off but you need to do it every time you start the car at the beginning of a trip. You can’t permanently turn it off.
Other than that, I really like the build quality and overall feel of my Mazda. It’s not a CX-90 though but I know most of the Mazdas have I-stop.
My understanding is that the auto stop feature you talk about is a federally mandated feature - maybe not Canada specifically but US regs which just automatically get adopted here in Canada (and elsewhere around the world).
Manufacturers are required to/ encouraged to have it.
So all companies and the compatible competition have the same function/feature and it always requires a button push to disable on each drive.
Start stop is not mandated per se, but having it affects the city fuel economy test number. Anything like that that affects the fuel economy test has to turn on every time the car turns on. It’s why most vehicles default to normal or eco even if you had sport mode on when you parked
You can get a OBD2 device that disables iStop. It works for the CX-50, CX-30, Mazda 3 and more but I’m not sure about the CX-90. Personally I would like to be able to turn that feature off but my Mazda3 is year/trim where they didn’t use iStop.