2023 Mazda CX-9 Signature
- Three rows with newest infotainment system
- Pricing: $42,000-$54,000 and then comes fees and taxes = another $10,000
- All AWD
- Fairly tight front seat
- Captain chairs with armrests are nice, but bench seat available to get to 7 pass
- Not the largest SUV with 3 rows: all up, barely room for a carry-on
- Third row down lots of cargo room
- Seats comfy with upgraded lumbar in up trim; no massage
Driving:
- Sport mode it’s fast off the line
- 5 I4 turbo = 250 hp/320 lb-ft w Premium or 227 hp/310 lb-ft w reg, the recommended fuel
- Fuel economy (L/100 km): 11.6/9.1
- 6-spd auto
- Off-road mode activated with a button; a cottage mode, essentially, to slightly improve traction
- Bigger SUV and drives like it with just better
- G-vectoring control…chassis, body, engine and transmission; tad braking when wheel turned…
- Good power
Cabin
- Smallish sunroof
- Refreshed infotainment; fires up quickly
- Rotary wheel
- 360 camera GT and up trim lines ($51,000 plus)
- Heated/cooled seats
- Normal seats
- Nard button on infotainment; one button
- Not a touchscreen and somewhat smallish
- Gague cluster
- Hard buttons for climate
- Nice interior lighting at night
- Silber carbon fibre trim
- Many interior colours
- Excellent BOSE sound system
