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2026 Mazda CX-5 | Auto History | Jeff's Car Culture · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:06
  Don Armstrong: This week in auto history, Mr.
• 0:08
  Don Armstrong: Mars.
• 0:09
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 0:09
  Mike Marrs: We found a few things this week that we thought were rather interesting in auto history coming up.
• 0:15
  Mike Marrs: August the 23rd, way, way back in 1979.
• 0:20
  Mike Marrs: AMC introduces the Eagle.
• 0:23
  Mike Marrs: Now, this was one of their combinations trying to create a passenger car with comfort and four-wheel drive, and it was based on AMC's Concord.
• 0:32
  Mike Marrs: It uh had decent road manners and it was kind of a conventional, and you can get it in several body styles, including the wagon right here for you, Jeff.
• 0:40
  Mike Marrs: Still with the uh wood trim on it.
• 0:43
  Mike Marrs: And uh it's really it was part of an important predecessor today's crossovers and all-wheel drives, part of the industry development process, if you will.
• 0:51
  Jeff Dziekan: I'd drive it, I'd tub it out.
• 0:54
  Mike Marrs: Got the wood on it, you could do it.
• 0:56
  Mike Marrs: Then on uh August the 25th, back in 1910, the yellow cab company actually begins.
• 1:03
  Mike Marrs: Now it was founded by uh Walden Shaw as the Shaw Livery Company in Chicago.
• 1:09
  Mike Marrs: It was actually the first taxi cabs were horse-drawn carriages.
• 1:12
  Mike Marrs: And then, of course, it developed over the years, changed hands a couple of times, and yellow cab company actually had a yellow cab manufacturing company where they were building their own cabs for a little while.
• 1:24
  Mike Marrs: Uh so it uh, and then of course, one of the partners that came along in the process was a gentleman named Hertz, and of course, that's where you get Hertz rental cars from, so it all kind of transitions.
• 1:36
  Don Armstrong: Put you in the driver's seat today.
• 1:40
  Don Armstrong: Sorry.
• 1:41
  Mike Marrs: No problem.
• 1:42
  Mike Marrs: I didn't know he had audio effects.
• 1:44
  Mike Marrs: I think it's great.
• 1:45
  Mike Marrs: Then on uh coming up on August 26th, back in 1959, the Mini Cooper makes its design coming from the British Motor Corporation, and it's basically just basically known as a mini.
• 1:58
  Mike Marrs: Now I saw one of these in California several years ago, much like the right one, the one on the right there, the white one.
• 2:04
  Mike Marrs: And it's really rolling on 12-inch tall tires.
• 2:07
  Mike Marrs: I mean, it looks like a little kid's car going down the freeway at 50 miles an hour.
• 2:11
  Mike Marrs: I don't know, they'd go much faster, but that's how fast that one was going.
• 2:14
  Mike Marrs: So it was originally sold as the Austin 7 and Morris Mini Motor Company, and so it actually became an icon today, and they're still in production.
• 2:24
  Mike Marrs: And um the original design was actually produced up until 2000, and they built 5.3 million of these cars along the way.
• 2:32
  Mike Marrs: Then we're gonna move on to August the 27th, 1957.
• 2:37
  Mike Marrs: One of Jeff's favorite cars.
• 2:39
  Mike Marrs: Ford introduces the Ed Sol to the press.
• 2:44
  Mike Marrs: We brought out the wagon for you, Jeff.
• 2:46
  Jeff Dziekan: I know, I'd drive it all.
• 2:47
  Jeff Dziekan: I'd drive the I'd drive the the uh C dan.
• 2:51
  Mike Marrs: So it was made its sales debut in 1957.
• 2:54
  Mike Marrs: Unfortunately, it became a very very quickly became a famous commercial failure.
• 2:59
  Mike Marrs: Part of it was due to the unusual styling, and a lot of people have decided that the ambitious marketing really uh is kind of what killed it.
• 3:08
  Mike Marrs: Went a little too far, a little too fast, but anyway, that's lessons learned as far as that horse collar grill just does it for me.
• 3:15
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 3:16
  Mike Marrs: A lot of people like that.
• 3:18
  Mike Marrs: Push buttons, push button trans.
• 3:20
  Mike Marrs: The shifter.
• 3:21
  Mike Marrs: I love the shifter.
• 3:22
  Mike Marrs: Then uh August 28th, 1937, the Toyota Motor Company is established.
• 3:28
  Mike Marrs: Now, in 1937, it was actually coming out of the Toyota Automotive Automatic Loomworks Company.
• 3:36
  Mike Marrs: So this was a company, uh they developed an engine, they built their first prototype automobile.
• 3:41
  Mike Marrs: Then they changed the name from Toyota to Yo to Toyota, and partially, because the Japanese characters to write Toyota it took eight strokes to actually make that character.
• 3:57
  Mike Marrs: So, and that's considered a fortunate number.
• 3:59
  Mike Marrs: So they changed the name of it based on how many strokes it took to write the name of the car.
• 4:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Very, yeah, very superstitious.
• 4:07
  Mike Marrs: How well it looks like all the new modern Toyotas that are out there.
• 4:11
  Mike Marrs: So that was a few things that we found this week in automotive history that we thought were rather interesting coming up in the next week.
• 4:17
  Don Armstrong: And that they were.
• 4:19
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 4:19
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 4:27
  Don Armstrong: All right there, uh Mr.
• 4:29
  Don Armstrong: Marnes uh got the driving destinations for us.
• 4:32
  Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
• 4:33
  Mike Marrs: Got a few things that we were looking at.
• 4:34
  Mike Marrs: School, the kids have all gone back to school, so family weekend trips are basically what you're looking at either Saturday and Sunday or maybe for the whole weekend.
• 4:43
  Mike Marrs: So we were looking at day tripping.
• 4:45
  Mike Marrs: Uh and one of the things is Beaumont.
• 4:48
  Mike Marrs: Now it's far enough from Houston that it's out of Houston, but it's not really too far.
• 4:53
  Mike Marrs: It's only about an hour, hour and a half, depending on where you're coming from.
• 4:55
  Mike Marrs: And one of the things is the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum.
• 5:00
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is really a look at what really changed Texas.
• 5:03
  Mike Marrs: The spindle top uh oil wells that came in from the spindletop oil field that's just outside of Beaumont.
• 5:09
  Mike Marrs: Created a big gusher, set off the first big oil boom in the state of Texas.
• 5:14
  Mike Marrs: Now, the Gladys City Boomtown Museum, they've got a lot of things like a livery stable, a lot of reenactments or setups like were uh around during that time of year.
• 5:25
  Mike Marrs: And once a year, they actually have a smaller, but it's an oil derrick type setup, and they'll set off a water boom to kind of reenact the the gusher.
• 5:35
  Mike Marrs: And uh it's a pretty big deal, it's pretty neat, and then there's a lot of other museums to see around in Beaumont, uh including the State Fire Museum.
• 5:43
  Mike Marrs: Then uh the second place we wanted to look at is Nacadoches.
• 5:46
  Mike Marrs: Again, not too far to make it where it have to be a weekend.
• 5:50
  Mike Marrs: You can make it a longer day trip because it's a little bit further to drive.
• 5:53
  Mike Marrs: We've got a lot of historic buildings, got a walkable downtown, parks, uh creek, uh Millard's Crossing Historic Village is a place, it's got a lot of interesting things that go on in it, as well as the Stephen S.
• 6:05
  Mike Marrs: Austin University has a planetarium.
• 6:08
  Mike Marrs: So you can kind of do something kind of in the inside, get a little air conditioning, as well as get some of the outside experiences outside of Houston to make it a day trip, even though it's a little long.
• 6:20
  Mike Marrs: The third one we wanted to look at was Sea Center, Texas.
• 6:23
  Mike Marrs: Now, this is down in Lake Jackson.
• 6:25
  Mike Marrs: Uh I never heard of it until I went looking for all this stuff, and it's easy to get to and it's easy to overlook.
• 6:31
  Mike Marrs: I guess that's why nobody's heard of it.
• 6:32
  Mike Marrs: But coming out of Houston, 288 is kind of a main thoroughfare.
• 6:36
  Mike Marrs: Well, you just get on it and you go south until you get to Sea Center, Texas.
• 6:41
  Mike Marrs: Now, it's also uh has an aquarium, it's a fish hatchery, and it really looks specifically at the Texas Gulf Coast marine life, you know, covering the salt marshes, the bays, artificial reefs, things like that.
• 6:53
  Mike Marrs: It's got a touch pool to where the kids can actually get in and handle a few of the marine animals that it's safe to do.
• 6:59
  Mike Marrs: And the best part is it's free.
• 7:03
  Mike Marrs: Then a little bit closer to your house there, Don, Rosenberg.
• 7:07
  Mike Marrs: It's still close to Houston.
• 7:09
  Mike Marrs: In fact, last time I was over there, it's basically Houston's about caught up with it.
• 7:13
  Mike Marrs: It's got a historic downtown with shops and restaurants, and it has the Fort Bend Museum.
• 7:18
  Mike Marrs: It's got some uh other opportunities such as Seaborne Creek Nature Park.
• 7:22
  Mike Marrs: You can go hiking, birding, do a little bit of fishing.
• 7:25
  Mike Marrs: So it's not too far, but it's a nice place to go.
• 7:28
  Mike Marrs: And it's also got a couple of uh people that's from that area.
• 7:32
  Mike Marrs: BJ Thomas is one of them, right there on the left.
• 7:35
  Mike Marrs: And then there's also dead.
• 7:37
  Mike Marrs: Yes, he is.
• 7:38
  Mike Marrs: But Steven Droitz, D R O Z D, I'm not sure.
• 7:42
  Mike Marrs: How do you say his name, Don?
• 7:43
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 7:44
  Don Armstrong: Oh who is he?
• 7:45
  Mike Marrs: He's he he's with a his one of the uh member of the Flaming Lips band.
• 7:51
  Mike Marrs: He's been on TV.
• 7:52
  Don Armstrong: Flaming something.
• 7:53
  Don Armstrong: I I know a few of those, but yeah, about flaming lips.
• 7:56
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 7:56
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, go ahead.
• 7:58
  Mike Marrs: Then we run down to Surfside Beach.
• 8:00
  Mike Marrs: Now, yeah, if you go down to Galveston, Galveston's pretty predictable about what you're gonna see, what you're gonna do.
• 8:04
  Don Armstrong: Candace Thackeray's hangout.
• 8:06
  Mike Marrs: There you go.
• 8:07
  Mike Marrs: Now, but if you go over to Surfside, which is uh west of Galveston, you get a little more simple.
• 8:13
  Mike Marrs: The beach, you still got the beach, the Gulf Air, and and lots of uh places to go have lunch, have dinner, but there's not really a big attraction like uh the parks and the museum or the strand that's really gonna drag a bunch of people down there.
• 8:27
  Mike Marrs: So this is actually more of a place you can go and literally go beach.
• 8:31
  Mike Marrs: This is a picture of the city hall at Surfside Beach.
• 8:37
  Mike Marrs: So it kind of gives you an idea of how laid back it is down there.
• 8:39
  Jeff Dziekan: City Hall looks like it looks kind of like a penitentiary.
• 8:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Just a side note, Mike.
• 8:44
  Jeff Dziekan: When I moved to Texas in 81, I lived in Clute, Texas, which is the mosquito capital of Texas, which is 15 minutes from where you're showing that picture right there.
• 8:52
  Jeff Dziekan: We used to spend six out of the seven days a week down at Surfside Beach.
• 8:56
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:57
  Mike Marrs: Went through there, went through Clute one morning about 2 30, and uh met the local uh constable.
• 9:04
  Don Armstrong: I can't imagine why.
• 9:06
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:07
  Mike Marrs: So the other one we wanted to mention is College Station.
• 9:10
  Mike Marrs: Now, uh everybody thinks when you think college station, you go Texas AM.
• 9:14
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, Texas AM is a big deal.
• 9:15
  Mike Marrs: Love their band, their marching band, but there's a lot more things there not too far from Houston.
• 9:20
  Mike Marrs: George H.
• 9:21
  Mike Marrs: W.
• 9:21
  Mike Marrs: Bush Presidential Library Museum is there.
• 9:24
  Mike Marrs: Got a lot of interesting things in there.
• 9:26
  Mike Marrs: Maybe it's a little bit for the older kids or teenagers, but you can go there and you can actually go and explore the university itself.
• 9:33
  Mike Marrs: And the the football stadium is just monstrous.
• 9:36
  Mike Marrs: And there's even a picture here of uh some of the older places, but go down around Northgate or even slip over to Brian downtown if you need to go to a little bit more.
• 9:45
  Mike Marrs: But a lot of things to do there without actually having to go to a museum park or an Aqua Music Park.
• 9:52
  Don Armstrong: Thank you, sir.
• 9:53
  Mike Marrs: Uh in wheel time.
• 10:01
  Don Armstrong: Time now for this hour's car review.
• 10:03
  Don Armstrong: 2026 Mazda CX5 All-Wheel Drive.
• 10:09
  Don Armstrong: Available trim levels are the S, the S Select, the S preferred, the S Premium, the S Premium Plus, and I had the S Premium Plus.
• 10:23
  Don Armstrong: It's a lot of S's in there.
• 10:26
  Don Armstrong: This is a small small SUV.
• 10:29
  Don Armstrong: Uh seats including the driver, five.
• 10:32
  Don Armstrong: Uh exterior changes, all new, completely redesigned for 2026.
• 10:38
  Don Armstrong: Uh exterior features include familiar Mazda grille with a balanced, staggered headlight design, smooth curves, attractive on the door panels, uh, black plastic wheel opening moldings.
• 10:51
  Don Armstrong: It seems like everybody's doing that these days.
• 10:53
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 10:54
  Don Armstrong: Uh rather large C pillar.
• 10:55
  Don Armstrong: It can hamper your rear side vision a bit, so keep that in mind.
• 11:00
  Don Armstrong: You'll have to use those uh side mirrors.
• 11:04
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about the hockey stick rear lighting, love that.
• 11:08
  Don Armstrong: The overall design gets high marks, in my opinion.
• 11:11
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 11:12
  Don Armstrong: Nothing.
• 11:14
  Don Armstrong: Interior highlights.
• 11:15
  Don Armstrong: Uh, much improved over the outgoing model, and needless to say, it's bigger inside and out.
• 11:22
  Don Armstrong: They all do that also.
• 11:23
  Don Armstrong: Extra large center touch screen, uh, almost uh 13 inches now.
• 11:29
  Don Armstrong: Quality materials fit and finish throughout the cabin, clamshell doors on the console lid.
• 11:35
  Don Armstrong: See them?
• 11:36
  Don Armstrong: I I'm just not a big fan because you still have to open both of them to get your hand down in there.
• 11:41
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, it's the way that it is.
• 11:43
  Don Armstrong: Um cargo room, bigger redesign, uh, allows larger storage behind the second row.
• 11:51
  Don Armstrong: And of course, you fold down the second row and got yourself a minivan back there.
• 11:55
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, almost everything on the interior.
• 11:58
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 11:59
  Don Armstrong: Operating screen system is still difficult to use in many ways.
• 12:04
  Don Armstrong: Uh, thought that they would uh bump that up a bit.
• 12:07
  Don Armstrong: Uh try to change the radio station, I dare you.
• 12:10
  Don Armstrong: Engine, 2.5 liter inline four-cylinder, 187 horsepower, 186 pound feet of torque.
• 12:17
  Don Armstrong: Till rating, 1,500 pounds.
• 12:20
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 12:20
  Don Armstrong: Uh now, as far as you know, mileage is concerned, expect 24 city, 30 highway for combined at 26.
• 12:28
  Don Armstrong: I got 26.8 mpg over 410 miles.
• 12:34
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, not bad gas mileage.
• 12:36
  Don Armstrong: Pretty good.
• 12:37
  Don Armstrong: Uh, what could use improvement?
• 12:39
  Don Armstrong: I think that the hybrid version of it comes next year.
• 12:42
  Don Armstrong: Riding handling Mazda Sportiness.
• 12:45
  Don Armstrong: I'm gonna tell it like it is.
• 12:47
  Don Armstrong: Um, it could be a little bit too stiff for some people, but that's the Mazda way.
• 12:51
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 12:52
  Don Armstrong: Not sure about its off-road ability.
• 12:55
  Don Armstrong: Uh, I did not take it off-road, and I don't think most people do take it off-road.
• 12:59
  Don Armstrong: Okay, here's the pricing.
• 13:01
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price is$38,900, still under$40.
• 13:06
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 13:07
  Don Armstrong: But price is tested.
• 13:09
  Don Armstrong: Now we had the top of the line.
• 13:10
  Don Armstrong: So$41,080 is the sticker price on this particular car that I drove.
• 13:17
  Don Armstrong: Base model price.
• 13:18
  Don Armstrong: You can get in one of these for under$30,000.
• 13:20
  Don Armstrong: $29,990 is the base model.
• 13:23
  Don Armstrong: Good luck in trying to find one.
• 13:24
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:25
  Don Armstrong: Here are the competitors.
• 13:26
  Don Armstrong: The Hyundai Tucson,$29,700.
• 13:30
  Don Armstrong: Kia Sportage,$28,790.
• 13:35
  Don Armstrong: And then the Toyota RAV 4.
• 13:38
  Don Armstrong: That's all new, also.
• 13:40
  Don Armstrong: That goes a little bit more at$31,900.
• 13:44
  Don Armstrong: My daughter just bought a RAV 4.
• 13:45
  Don Armstrong: Did she?
• 13:46
  Don Armstrong: That's another nice vehicle.
• 13:48
  Don Armstrong: You know, these new vehicles that are coming out now, they're pretty spot on.
• 13:52
  Don Armstrong: And uh they've made lots of improvements to the redesigns of all of these models.
• 13:57
  Don Armstrong: And if you're in the market for a car, uh I think now's the time to buy.
• 14:01
  Don Armstrong: And the other thing is that on many cars, not necessarily the brand, brand, brand new ones, but on many cars, they're giving you a lower interest rate and financing out the wazoo seven years, hundred years, you know.
• 14:14
  Jeff Dziekan: She did her due diligence and uh she asked a lot of questions and she did good.
• 14:17
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:18
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 14:18
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, it it it it can happen.
• 14:21
  Don Armstrong: And uh back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show, time now for Jeff's Car Culture, all things WD40, and what it can do for your car.
• 14:36
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, some of these things are surprising.
• 14:38
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't call them hacks or just you know however people use these things.
• 14:41
  Jeff Dziekan: But uh, this versatile product has many uses other than you know the things that it's designed for, especially helpful in the garage.
• 14:47
  Jeff Dziekan: If you're looking for an inexpensive way to keep your car looking running, good is uh new.
• 14:52
  Jeff Dziekan: So originally developed by the aerospace industry as a degreaser and rust prevention solvent.
• 14:58
  Jeff Dziekan: And this, of course, the WD is water displacement, and it's the 40th formula.
• 15:03
  Jeff Dziekan: That's how that 40 came in there.
• 15:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Water displacement 40, right?
• 15:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh it's suitable for every application.
• 15:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Always double check though, uh, the instructions before you do any of these things for your car because it can be expensive if it doesn't work.
• 15:15
  Jeff Dziekan: So it's particularly useful for both protecting the chrome parts of your car and the rust improving their shine.
• 15:21
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, it can be done by coating the chrome surfaces with the original WD 40, the spray, and then waiting for about 10 minutes so it sinks in a little bit, and then gently scrub the chrome before uh rinsing off the residue.
• 15:33
  Jeff Dziekan: And who doesn't like to rinse residue?
• 15:35
  Jeff Dziekan: I like it.
• 15:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh spray on another coat, wrap it clean, and uh your shine will come back to the chrome.
• 15:41
  Jeff Dziekan: Similarly, uh the WD can be restore the headlights if you trust that, and if they're not too bad.
• 15:47
  Jeff Dziekan: And I know my uh son Jason just did Kylie's before she went over to Texas Tech.
• 15:51
  Jeff Dziekan: He did the buffing part of it.
• 15:53
  Jeff Dziekan: There's a process that they do at the dealership that he did for her.
• 15:56
  Jeff Dziekan: But that involves WD-40?
• 15:58
  Jeff Dziekan: No, no, no, it's all the compounds and things.
• 16:00
  Jeff Dziekan: But nevertheless, uh it's a multi-use product.
• 16:02
  Jeff Dziekan: Instead of applying it directly to lights, you should use it with uh put on a chrome or you should spray it on a clean cloth, then thoroughly rub the headlights to restore their shine.
• 16:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Using WD-40 on car doors can also be particularly useful cold weather.
• 16:18
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh in case that uh in that case, the WD can be used to unstick them in these situations.
• 16:24
  Jeff Dziekan: So you spray the WD on the frozen part and it will break loose.
• 16:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Using it on your car doors particularly useful in cold weather.
• 16:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh you can put it on your hinges as well.
• 16:34
  Jeff Dziekan: So gaskets and weather stripping of your car that can be limbered up.
• 16:38
  Jeff Dziekan: It can extend the lifespan as well as keep the climate control.
• 16:44
  Jeff Dziekan: Limber it up, uh, more efficient.
• 16:45
  Jeff Dziekan: The product can also be used to in a similar fashion for your windshield wipers, slowing down their wear and tear, saving you money, and it won't replace it.
• 16:53
  Jeff Dziekan: But crease right on your windshield.
• 16:54
  Jeff Dziekan: There you go.
• 16:55
  Jeff Dziekan: Another way of this product lubricant is your strut mounts.
• 16:58
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh can be annoying, they squeak the top of the mount.
• 17:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Sometimes the bolts get rusty and things uh from the open road spray it on there and they'll be lubed up.
• 17:06
  Jeff Dziekan: Very important though, not to use it on any of your brakes, because that's that'd be not be good.
• 17:12
  Jeff Dziekan: If you like keeping your car looking pristine and hate those sticky dashboards and all that good stuff people eat in your car, you can actually use this on uh some of the uh dash parts, maybe your steering wheel.
• 17:24
  Jeff Dziekan: They say it does work.
• 17:26
  Jeff Dziekan: I wouldn't do it, but there it is.
• 17:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Another common would be adhesives.
• 17:29
  Jeff Dziekan: If you got a bumper sticker or something that's sticky on your vehicle, rubber, tar, you can spray it on there, wipe it off, and it should be should be.
• 17:38
  Jeff Dziekan: Crayons.
• 17:39
  Jeff Dziekan: If you got kids in your car and they write crayon stuff on the on the uh doors or the pads or anything like that on the seats, WD-40 can remove that as well.
• 17:46
  Jeff Dziekan: The solvent is safe to use with paint, but WD removes grime, tree sap, bird droppings, and all that good stuff, dead bugs and things.
• 17:54
  Jeff Dziekan: The electrical components will go down.
• 17:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh components of your vehicle are obviously some of the car parts that are important to keep moisture free, can be used to dry them out, including spark plugs, spark plug wires, and ignition distributors.
• 18:11
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, this product is also dealing with flooded engines, whether that's part of your car, lawnmower, tractor, or other vehicle, uh completely shut off the motor, spray the original WD formula into the carburetor.
• 18:23
  Jeff Dziekan: Once the moisture is cleared, the engine should start and uh never have a problem after that.
• 18:28
  Jeff Dziekan: While uh it's great for drying out flooded engines, just remember that WD-40 is not a substitute for engine oil and should refrain from using it as such.
• 18:37
  Jeff Dziekan: And if you uh do a lot of highway driving, tired of having those bugs stick to your windshield, you can spray it on your windshield, and uh the bugs will just go off and they'll become roadkill.
• 18:46
  Jeff Dziekan: That's what the article says.
• 18:47
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh rather than stick to your windshield, the bug yeah, it comes roadkill.
• 18:51
  Jeff Dziekan: So just be careful how you use it.
• 18:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh WD40 has many uses.
• 18:54
  Jeff Dziekan: You can spray it on your tire, uh, keep the grime, the grime and road mud off your tires altogether.
• 19:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh spray it on there and it comes off very, very easily.
• 19:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Isn't it mainly fish oil?
• 19:06
  Jeff Dziekan: I don't know.
• 19:07
  Jeff Dziekan: I've never read the back of it.
• 19:09
  Jeff Dziekan: I've never read the ingredients of it.
• 19:11
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's not that you're gonna eat it or anything, but it's not no, but uh just be careful how you use it.
• 19:15
  Jeff Dziekan: There are some things that might you know ruin or get uh boogered up, as they say.
• 19:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Boogered up.
• 19:20
  Jeff Dziekan: Boogered up.
• 19:27
  Don Armstrong: Time now for this hour is car review.
• 19:29
  Don Armstrong: 2026 Mazda CX5 All-Wheel Drive.
• 19:35
  Don Armstrong: Available trim levels are the S, the S Select, the S Preferred, the S Premium, the S Premium Plus, and I had the S Premium Plus.
• 19:48
  Don Armstrong: There's a lot of S's in there.
• 19:52
  Don Armstrong: This is a small SUV.
• 19:55
  Don Armstrong: Uh seats including the driver, five.
• 19:57
  Don Armstrong: Uh exterior changes, all new, completely redesigned for 2026.
• 20:03
  Don Armstrong: Uh exterior features include familiar Mazda grille with a balanced, staggered headlight design, smooth curves, attractive on the door panels, uh, black plastic wheel opening moldings.
• 20:17
  Don Armstrong: It seems like everybody's doing that these days.
• 20:19
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 20:19
  Don Armstrong: Uh rather large C pillar can hamper your rear side vision a bit, so keep that in mind.
• 20:26
  Don Armstrong: You'll have to use those uh side mirrors.
• 20:29
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about the hockey stick rear lighting, love that.
• 20:33
  Don Armstrong: The overall design gets high marks, in my opinion.
• 20:36
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 20:38
  Don Armstrong: Nothing.
• 20:39
  Don Armstrong: Interior highlights.
• 20:41
  Don Armstrong: Uh, much improved over the outgoing model, and needless to say, it's bigger inside and out.
• 20:47
  Don Armstrong: They all do that also.
• 20:49
  Don Armstrong: Extra large center touch screen, uh, almost uh 13 inches now.
• 20:54
  Don Armstrong: Quality materials fit and finish throughout the cabin, clamshell doors on the console lid.
• 21:01
  Don Armstrong: See them?
• 21:01
  Don Armstrong: I I'm just not a big fan because you still have to open both of them to get your hand down in there.
• 21:07
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, it's the way that it is.
• 21:09
  Don Armstrong: Um cargo room, bigger redesign, uh, allows larger storage behind the second row.
• 21:17
  Don Armstrong: And of course, you fold down the second row and got yourself a minivan back there.
• 21:21
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, almost everything on the interior.
• 21:23
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 21:25
  Don Armstrong: Operating screen system is still difficult to use in many ways.
• 21:30
  Don Armstrong: Uh, I thought that they would uh bump that up a bit.
• 21:33
  Don Armstrong: Uh try to change the radio station, I dare you.
• 21:35
  Don Armstrong: Engine, 2.5 liter inline four-cylinder, 187 horsepower, 186 pound feet of torque.
• 21:43
  Don Armstrong: Till rating, 1,500 pounds.
• 21:45
  Don Armstrong: That's it.
• 21:46
  Don Armstrong: Uh now, as far as you know, mileage is concerned, expect 24 city, 30 highway for combined at 26.
• 21:54
  Don Armstrong: I got 26.8 mpg over 410 miles.
• 21:59
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, not bad gas mileage.
• 22:02
  Don Armstrong: Pretty good.
• 22:03
  Don Armstrong: Uh, what could use improvement?
• 22:04
  Don Armstrong: I think that the hybrid version of it comes next year.
• 22:08
  Don Armstrong: Riding handling Mazda Sportiness.
• 22:10
  Don Armstrong: I'm gonna tell it like it is.
• 22:12
  Don Armstrong: Um, it could be a little bit too stiff for some people, but that's the Mazda way.
• 22:17
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 22:18
  Don Armstrong: Not sure about its off-road ability.
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: Uh, I did not take it off-road, and I don't think most people do take it off-road.
• 22:25
  Don Armstrong: Okay, here's the pricing.
• 22:26
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price is$38,900.
• 22:31
  Don Armstrong: Still under$40.
• 22:32
  Don Armstrong: Yep.
• 22:33
  Don Armstrong: But price is tested.
• 22:34
  Don Armstrong: Now we had the top of the line.
• 22:36
  Don Armstrong: So$41,080 is the sticker price on this particular car that I drove.
• 22:43
  Don Armstrong: Base model price.
• 22:44
  Don Armstrong: You can get in one of these for under$30,000.
• 22:46
  Don Armstrong: $29,990 is the base model.
• 22:48
  Don Armstrong: Good luck in trying to find one.
• 22:50
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 22:50
  Don Armstrong: Here are the competitors.
• 22:51
  Don Armstrong: The Hyundai Tucson,$29,700.
• 22:56
  Don Armstrong: Kia Sportage,$28,790.
• 23:01
  Don Armstrong: And then the Toyota RAV 4.
• 23:04
  Don Armstrong: That's all new, also.
• 23:05
  Don Armstrong: That goes a little bit more at$31,900.
• 23:10
  Don Armstrong: My daughter just bought a RAV 4.
• 23:11
  Don Armstrong: Did she?
• 23:12
  Don Armstrong: That's another nice vehicle.
• 23:13
  Don Armstrong: You know, these new vehicles that are coming out now, they're pretty spot on.
• 23:17
  Don Armstrong: And uh, they've made lots of improvements to the redesigns of all of these models.
• 23:23
  Don Armstrong: And if you're in the market for a car, uh I think now's the time to buy.
• 23:27
  Don Armstrong: And the other thing is that on many cars, not necessarily the brand, brand, brand new ones, but on many cars, they're giving you a lower interest rate in financing out the wazoo seven years, a hundred years, you know.
• 23:39
  Jeff Dziekan: She did her due diligence and uh she asked a lot of questions and she did good.
• 23:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.