Mazda6 AWD 2015 FL (ENG) - Test Drive and Review
2015 ж. 27 Қар.
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Mazda6 has been given a facelift. The station wagon with a diesel motor gets optional AWD. Mazda6 now also has a head up display, mechanical handbrake has been replaced with an electric parking brake. Mazda added some safety features as well. And the front fascia has been refreshed. Third generation Mazda6 was good from the start, so hasn't Mazda spoiled something here?
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love your top gear style presenting, cracking some jokes here and there, except that the cars you review are mostly the ones people can afford, rather than only supercars in top gear. great review!
+evoxpress Thanks ;)
Absolutely brilliant video Jimmy
I love your style and also love this car! Shame we don't get this in USDM market. :( Subbed! Keep up the great work! ☺
great balanced review as usual! Back seating in the mazda 6 estate really is too cramped for its class... Only one thing: the background music reminds me of that of an old-fashioned chinese restaurant.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
I like the 'Hunt For Red October' reference from a man with an accent significantly more in keeping with Clancy's novel than Sean Connery :D Slightly more OT, any adult who finds themselves in the middle of the rear seat in anything in this price bracket for more than a 5km trip really needs to ask themselves if they've cultivated the best personal relationships available to them. 100km in that configuration and you may have a few choice words for your travelling companions.
Thanks for this excellent review
this is my favourite estate car!
thank you, great review.
Great Review! Getting better! :)
I get a consumption of around 5l /100 km with a manual gearbox (got even 4.3l/100 km) and driving at 170-180kmh on a highway (living in Germany, it’s legal 😂) I got around 6.7l/100km 🤷♂️
Nice reviews Marek. Thanks. My favourite is Mondeo estate.
Great review Marek.
I drive CX5 2.2 175 PS AWD, only with manual transmission (which is great), and I don't know what are you talking about consumption? I"ve noted each gas refuel (I always refuel it to top) and I have average consumption (since I've bought it, 1,5 years ago) of 7,5 l/100 km. It's a result of about 65% driving in the city, 20% on highway (average speed on highway is 140 km/h), and the rest of about 15% is on extra-urban or open roads. And I don't drive it carefully, 7/12 moths with AC on. For an SUV, it's great consumption.
good job,Marek
love mazda 6, good review!
Great review
Its to bad most of the USa loathe Station-wagons. This is a neat looking wagon w Awd to boot.
I have the same car with the same engine 2.2L Twin Turbo and I get 6.2L/100Km. It's a great car. ( From Australia by the way)
Your Mazda 6 isn't the same as the one in this video. Australian market doesn't get AWD which could easily explain why his Mazda 6 has inferior fuel economy than the FWD variants.
tsk for your good reviews, when are you test driving the mini clubman ?
+patricepnc Funny you should ask. I'm picking it up next week. Expect a review some time in January. I'm currently shooting some stuff to last through the next 2 months, as I'm about to close shop until February. It's too cold, and days are too short and dark.
Great review as usual Marek. Kinda surprised about the part where you talk about MZD connect system, as many reviews are positive about the usability of the system. Any specific reason you don't like it?
+Nonbelieverification Where do I start? 1. (this is specific to the Polish market, but I suspect it may be similar in other non-English and non-mainstream languages) - translation is atrocious. 2. (again Poland) - map updates are usually a couple of months behind what the map provider offers. As a result the car doesn't know the most recent developments, and keeps rerouting me from motorways to b-roads. 3. In one of Mazdas I tested the MZD Connect even reset itself a few times during the week I spent with it, usually during the last mile, when sat nav was really necessary. 4. The system is slow. On a roundabout with more than usual four exits it is likely I'll take the wrong exit, because it takes ages for MZD Connect to "make up its mind". During the CX-3 launch event in Barcelona me and my colleagues kept getting lost because of it. 5. I find the interface completely unintuitive. Touchscreen works only when the car is parked, which means I'm left with the knob, which I keep turning, and turning to get anywhere. Storing a radio station and giving it a memory number (you'll find this in my Mazda3 review) takes around a minute. One radio station. 6. (again my subjective opinion) The interface looks a bit outdated compared to what you'll find on the market. I suppose if one is upgrading from an older Mazda or another car, which didn't have sat nav, it's not too bad. But compare it to anything that came out within the last two years, and I don't recall this bad a product. I'm saying this as a Mazda owner (fortunately without MZD Connect), who got a good deal on the car via Mazda press office.
+Marek Drives Thanks for the elaborate & concise answer. I drove it few times as loaner when my car was at the dealership, but did not have time to do lot of real-life testing. I drive a 6 with TomTom and previous system myself (pre-facelift). Actually like that a lot and contrary to newer MZD it does let you use it while on the move. I find however that most car manufacturers use outdated tech and can improve a lot in that department if they were to put some more energy and resources into it. I'm saying that coming from IT background.
Nonbelieverification The pre-FL TomTom was good enough. At least it had a familiar interface. As far as I'm concerned I want full smartphone integration in my car. No special apps, like in Renault Twingo, just pure mirror screen. I can't wait for Android Auto to finally work in Poland. I downloaded the app from outside of Play Store, but it has regional restrictions. Unfortunately designing cars takes several years. So by the time a car finally goes into production much of its infotainment is outdated. There are a few notable exceptions though, like Audi, BMW, VW. They seem to offer relatively modern, easy to use interfaces, and features, which almost make it worthwhile to pay outrageous amounts they ask for.
where are u getting this 6 n diesel Left hand drive?
You can drive with one hand yeah? Referring to the noise it makes if you do not have your hands on the steering wheel
Hi are these diesels skyactive reliable??
Nice for that space, How much in your country ?
Great review Marek. I've got one of those myself - 2013 sport nav, 2.0 petrol. Lots of fun and agree with you - the best looking estate on the market. I'm surprised the fuel consumption is so bad for a diesel. The 2.0 petrol in mixed cycle does about 8.5 l/100km. Pozdrawiam
+Marcin Ptak Brand new car. Maybe that's why. I had decent fuel economy on the petrol one too. kzhead.info/sun/nLygY7Gugqxno3A/bejne.html (BTW, możemy chyba po polsku? Są też polskie wersje testów :) )
+Marek Drives Ha ha oczywiscie. Nie widzialem jeszcze innych testow, ten jest pierwszy I wszystkie komentarze sa po angielsku, stad tak wyszlo.
+Marcin Ptak W takim razie bardzo mi miło, dzień dobry, itp. ;) Kanał jest dwujęzyczny, playlista PL: kzhead.info/channel/PL6CAC81F31644AE0A.html i ENG kzhead.info/channel/PL5169B7C8C347837A.html
+Marcin Ptak Indeed the fact that it is a new car will play a role. But the AWD and automatic gearbox also add to consumption. I own a 175hp skyactiv diesel Sportwagon manual and do about 5,7 liters per 100km average with combined City+Highway driving. And I am not a particularly slow driver.
Jaguar xf sportbreak is nicer!
God I wish this car was available in the U.S. :'(
me too
Well apparently USA is not a market for wagons: not only this one but also no Subaru Levorg
With the manual gearbox I get 4.5l/100 km combined and I drive a lot in London so get the manual because it’s way more economic .
What country you in?
I'am considering the manual version with 150 ps, i think it's the best choice in that segment and it looks great
I didn't know the estate has a shorter wheel base than the saloon. Is this the same as 2013 models?
Yup.
Funny the wagon costs as much as the sedan here in the Philippines, if I'm not mistaken. The diesel variant here is as expensive as a Peugeot 508 2.0 TDi here, though, so it's a pretty tough choice.
Diwa Galvez I have a sedan here in the us. Wagons are not available. If it was, I'd get the wagon in a hearbeat.
7elephantastic I test drove the wagon, and it is amazing. Seriously, going back to the Outback feels like a step backwards after I test drove this.
Thank You for yet another great review. I'm just looking at this car in this exact same spec but the consumption is quite off-putting, to say the least. Diesel costs 22.50 SEK/liter here in Sweden (around 2 €/liter), and I have 80km highway to work and back home every day, so I don't think my budget can survive this - when there's the Hyundai i40 estate for the same money, same age (2015), 1.7 CRDi with 141 ps, specced out to the max with ventilated seats and what not - but it apparently consumes less than 6 litres/100km no matter what. The only thing about i40 is that it objectively isn't as appealing with its looks as this Mazda. And I have to make my wife like the i40 as she likes the Mazda. Perhaps the consumption numbers here might sway here in the direction of i40 as well.
These were the NEDC days, so real life data could be well off. And this is an AWD, which also uses more fuel, than a FWD. I would take into account that in Poland we tend to drive faster, than in Sweden, and 8 years ago I could have been a bit more foolish as well.
Can I ask you what rig where you using at 5:30? Dziekuje!
It's not what I would like it to be :) It starts off rather well with a Manfrotto 241 suction cup, but then it goes south with a $5 30" selfie stick, and a GoPro at the end.
Dziekuje m8!
Wish they sold this in America. Very nice wagon.
you can get it to consume the state numbers, just don't drive faster than 90 kph and have AC off.
I think the car looks great, but we already have a Mazda 3 from 2014 in the family. But the diesel consumption is as you said, to high. Will probably buy an estate in a year or two, but still not sure if it should have AWD or not.
I prefer a Subaru Outback. It would be great to see you reviewing ist ;-)
+LynnardvanLaak Sorry, that's not going to happen. Subaru HQ in Poland is located half a day drive away from where I live. I don't have 2 days just to bring it in, and take it back.
Good looking car. Shame we dont have here in St. Petersburg not an estate, nor diesel. And the same for a Superb. =(
+DoriKei Which brands sell estate versions? Why doesn't Mazda/Skoda sell them? Are they supposed to be 'luxury' cars?
We got an Octavia with estate body. But no japanese cars at all.
its veird that you dont get it below 0.8. my father got one of these, and he is around 0.55 in combined city and highway. i myself have a 2.2 liter mazda 3 2014 and its not hard for me to get around 0.3 if im in a really ECO Mode. with normal driving I lay around 0.4 -0.5 on combined driving.
Did Mazda fix its rust issues? Its a great car... but as far as I know it is still not zink plated?
+Andrej Krušič I've got a Mazda MX-5. It's 3,5 years old now, and no so far no rust. It's my daily driver, so I use it also during the winter, when roads in Poland are covered in salt to melt the snow.
+Marek Drives Tnx that is useful info...
No car will rust in 3 5 yr.
yamahaevo True. Mazda6 Mk3 is now about 3 years old, so talking about any rust issues is therefore pointless.
+yamahaevo : My mom sold her Mazda 323 (automatic, petrol) last year, it was a 1992 model (!!!) - almost no rust, but the paint started to flake though. All services done, super car, but she wanted a new one.
there's an AWD and Wagon version of the 6??? WTF Mazda ur selling the US and Canada all the wrong cars
Whaduya mean? Mazda is offering what 'mericans WANT, a stupid-ass SUV in every size and price point. In order to get Americans to buy wagons you gotta jack them up 3 inches and tack on a bunch of ugly plastic cladding.
rawsketch Unfortunately that's very true!
the same engine with a manual and FWD drinks only 6.9 l/100km
I want this is the US.
Eric Zhu But wagon?:(
Which country is he in?
+Khoa Le Poland.
that looks so great :)
any chance for new CX9 review?
I'm working on it. We don't have it in Europe, so I may have to travel to North America. But never say never.
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Mazda 6 sure is a great looking car, but it was a bit too big and slightly more expensive than the car I ended up with when I bought a new car earlier this year: Skoda Octavia. Still, the best looking estate has to be the New Superb. Yes, I have become a Skoda fanboy, I have to admit. :)
Not a bad car - but never in white trim. Looks like a dogs ambulance.