New Mazda 6 Tourer

Dureth

Dureth

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I'm currently looking for an estate car or crossover and the Mazda 6 has caught my eye. The style looks great and the features included in the SE-L Nav seem excellent. Seems I should be able to get hold of one for ~£20K after discounts. Fuel economy of the 150ps 2.2 diesel is exceptional at 67mpg combined and the reviews seem to have nothing bad to say about the car except the ride is a bit firm (something I can try out for myself in a test drive).

Does anybody have experience with the new Mazda 6 or Mazda dealers and head office in general?

Also any suggestions of other cars to look at? My criteria:

Diesel with 60mpg+
130 bhp minimum
Cruise control
Climate control
Large and preferably flat load space with no loading lip (slight angle on load space when seats are down is OK as long as there is no step)

I reserve the right to discard any suggestion based on looks :P
 
Well quoted figures are all I can go on and just hope they all cheated by about the same amount!

That said I'm seeing better than quoted figures on my RX8 so reaching near these might not be completely impossible, especially as I have more extra-urban than urban driving in my routine.
 
Currently getting ~45mpg (2.2d sport), mostly A/B roads for daily commutes.

Can only fault the Multimedia unit, bluetooth can be a bit hit and miss with phone support/features - a well known issue.

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A mate at work is getting 59mpg average from his 2005 Audi A4 2.0 TDI, he drives very fuel efficiently but not massively slowly, 70mph on motorways etc.
 
Dureth said:
Well quoted figures are all I can go on and just hope they all cheated by about the same amount!
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Type real mpg into google and Fuelly as well. User submitted figures, so there will be some variance, but will give you a much better perspective of what's realistic.
 
According to the Honest John RealMPG register, the new Civic Tourer 1.6d is getting a genuine 65 mpg or there abouts. It's slightly smaller but the boot is massive. I can't think of another car that size that so consistently gets such low fuel consumption.

The CRV with the same engine is also managing over 60mpg real world.
 
My experience with Mazda is that parts availability isn't great.

Dealers only tend to stock service parts, their standard availability is 2 working days for items in stock, but anything slightly off the wall is weeks away from Japan and shipped by boat, so it gets here when it gets here. It just shows on the computer as back order.

I've enquired about parts for my 2008 car, but I know somebody with a CX-5 which was sat at the dealers for 3 weeks with a broken coil spring. The dealer had absolutely no idea when the part would arrive.

When I had Ford's, the dealer was getting 2 deliveries a day
 
Nice to know about parts availability, I was also slightly turned off by the lacklustre 3 year warranty. Other manufacturers are offering 5, 7 or lifetime warranties now, why is Mazda's still so short?
 
I averaged about 45mpg from my 6 over the course of a year.

Had a few faults with it; nothing major but enough to be annoying (sat-nav packed up, front and rear discs warped and strut tops started squeaking).

Otherwise a very nice car. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend one to someone but it won't do the claimed average.
 
Mazda 6 does look nice, my brother recently got a fully loaded one for around 20 grand does about 48mpg on average (largely dual carriageway driving).

Noticed there was some squeaking the other day when he was at full lock manoeuvring out the drive - hope thats not a fault developing.
 
I'm sure it's a nice enough motor. You will REALLY struggle to get ANY similar sized car to ACTUALLY do 60+ mpg. They might say they do, but they just wont. My old (2012) A4 was about 30% short on the combined figure. That was a bit extreme though. I would suspect you should look closer to 15-20% less than advertised to be more realistic.
 
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I'm sure it's a nice enough motor. You will REALLY struggle to get ANY similar sized car to ACTUALLY do 60+ mpg. They might say they do, but they just wont. My old (2012) A4 was about 30% short on the combined figure. That was a bit extreme though. I would suspect you should look closer to 15-20% less than advertised to be more realistic.
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My patents get close to 60mpg out of their passat (2.0 TDI) I don't know off the top of my head exact numbers but it was upper 50 something mpg when last mentioned.
 
My A4 Avant 2.0 TDI (143), does 48 ish driving like a Audi driver, but if i really driver carefully, I can tickle 62mpg out of over a journey.

But my longterm average is 44, and thats mainly town driving, with a heavy foot. My old 2.2 accord, was down at 37mpg longterm.
 
Rroff said:
Noticed there was some squeaking the other day when he was at full lock manoeuvring out the drive - hope thats not a fault developing.
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Pretty much what mine did. I noticed that then it became evident at low speeds around town too. Mazda will fix it FOC with updated parts though if it is the case :)
 
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If I had £20,000 to spend I'd struggle to put a Mazda6 on the shortlist.
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I've also been looking at what I can get 2nd hand for £20k under 2 years old and under 20K miles however most estate and crossover cars don't seem to depreciate that much within those windows and most young cars have had more mileage than that put on in the first 2 years.

If you can think of anything that drops into the £20k price bracket I'd be interested, there are a couple of BMW 318D and 320D estates that just about squeeze into those criteria but not a huge number. Especially when looking at some of the cheaper brand cars the nearly new range costs within £1000 of a brand new car, the savings don't seem to be out there 2nd hand.
 
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