{"id":89,"date":"2012-03-13T04:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T04:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=89"},"modified":"2012-03-17T03:02:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:02:27","slug":"mazda5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Mazda5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a used 2009 Mazda5 Sport, with manual transmission. I was curious about the (to me) high RPMs I was experiencing driving it home from the dealer, when I ran across this on edmunds forums:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">The gearing is somewhat high, although it feels smooth to me (sometimes I forget to shift up to 5th) on the highway and then notice it when I look at the RPMs). I only saw your question now, so I can give an inexact answer. When I drive around 65, the RPMs are in the low 3000&#8217;s (3100 &#8211; 3200). Doing the math would get you a bit under 3000 for 60 MPH and a bit under 3500 for 70 MPH. I sure wish it had a 6-speed manual so highway driving could be down around 2500 RPM. My 2000 MPV automatic did around 2700-2800 at 65 MPH and my 2005 MPV with the 3.0 engine was around 2200-2300 at the same speed. Did C4C with the 2000 MPV to get the M5 Sport Manual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Other things to watch out for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Premature tire wear<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Rear strut wear<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Rear sway bar wear<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Road noise due to flattened tires (after being stationary for a long time)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Replacing OEM tires with more durable quieter tires<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a used 2009 Mazda5 Sport, with manual transmission. I was curious about the (to me) high RPMs I was experiencing driving it home from the dealer, when I ran across this on edmunds forums: The gearing is somewhat high, although it feels smooth to me (sometimes I forget to shift up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-talk","category-mazda","category-mazda5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}