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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Mazda CX-90 (PHEV)

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Hobbies, Automotive, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

We read a lot of press releases for a lot of cars.

0:03.0

We drive a lot of cars. We want to know what the manufacturer thinks of them and says about them and that kind of stuff.

0:07.0

And I'm not sure I have ever read a press release with more of two things.

0:11.0

One, how many things were new, all new, very new, super new, and how many things had a specific handcrafted Japanese name for them.

0:21.0

Okay. And in the Mazda CX90, we have tapped the scales on both.

0:26.0

Yes. Yes. I mean, they're very new.

0:29.0

And it has very many custom personalized hand-done Japanese things in it.

0:36.0

But there isn't a press release from any manufacturer that doesn't give a glowing review of their own cars.

0:40.0

No. No. They say, well, this is our thing. This is our best ever.

0:43.0

No Mazda is not unique in that regard. Every car is the best car they're based on the press materials.

0:47.0

And I'm not actually sliding that. I just, there were many, many new things.

0:50.0

And not new bad, new good. All new full-size platform from Mazda with a rear-wheel-drive biased,

0:57.0

long-to-tutely mounted straight six-engine. Yes.

1:01.0

Nobody's doing that anymore. No. Not all new. All new. That's all new.

1:05.0

And the zero behind the nine. That's all new. Yes. All new.

1:09.0

Yes. We made fun of Mazda when they randomly dropped the CX30. We were like, what's this doing here?

1:14.0

Now they've slowly changed all of their number. I'm glad you're at the CX31.

1:17.0

The CX30 is 15 to 90. You know it. So thank you.

1:20.0

CX90 replaces the CX9 as the seven-seater in the Mazda lineup.

1:24.0

They're new kind of halo car with this brand new straight six that are said new enough.

1:28.0

Also has all new eight-speed automatic that does not have a torque converter. It has a wet clutch.

1:33.0

Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, that's new. That's new. It's very new.

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