{"id":87,"date":"2007-01-28T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-01-28T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T20:55:41","slug":"mazdas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Mazdas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(This is the second time I&#8217;m writing this, my first post inexplicably disappeared \ud83d\ude41 )<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I get (have) to travel a lot for work, and usually I rent a car. (usually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hertz.com\">Hertz<\/a>, as I am a Gold Member) Hertz used to allow me to specifically request a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mazdausa.com\">Mazda<\/a>, but these days it is not an option. However, I have been lucky the past three times I&#8217;ve rented a car, and have gotten to drive three very different Mazdas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Miata (Las Vegas). Ok, this was a pleasure rental and not for business. I was surprised to find a Miata waiting for me at the canopy, as I had requested an economy car. It was a newish Miata, with a ragtop. I decided I wanted to find out what all the excitement surrounding the miata was, so I went ahead and drove it out of the lot. Immediately there were two things I didnt like about it: the seats are very low to the ground and uncomfortable, and there was a LOT of road noise. My companion liked it even less, and eventually said she hated it. Still we only had the car for a day, so it was at least a learning experience. No more Miatas!<\/li>\n<li>Mazda6 (DC). I own a 626, which is the predecessor to the Mazda6. While the 626 is squarely a family sedan, the Mazda6 is a bit smaller in interior space, and a lot more sporty in exteriors. I liked the 6 I drove, which had a V6, but could tell that a normal 4 cylinder would not have any oomph to match the sporty lines of the car. My 626 engine is nothing to gush over either, but at least the body doesn&#8217;t scream sporty like the 6 does. All in all though not a bad car. With incentives and rebates, I believe you can get a 6 for the same or lower price than a Mazda3, which is probably a good deal.<\/li>\n<li>Mazda5 (DC). This is the microvan I am currently driving this week. I&#8217;ve driven it before, and thought its acceleration was amazing considered it was a microvan, but this time around I&#8217;m not impressed with the acceleration. The gas mileage is pretty poor too. However, I think this is a very useful vehicle if I were married and had 2+ kids. Probably don&#8217;t want to make this the primary car, however. In a perfect world I would have a Mazda3 for day to day commuting and a Mazda5 for weekend trips with a family. Now all I need to do is get rich and get a family!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is the second time I&#8217;m writing this, my first post inexplicably disappeared \ud83d\ude41 ) I get (have) to travel a lot for work, and usually I rent a car. (usually Hertz, as I am a Gold Member) Hertz used to allow me to specifically request a Mazda, but these days it is not an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-talk","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}