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more about #2009mazda6 more comments → gabeedwards01: Several points to make here. 1. These cars shown above don't have bumpers. They have a section of the nose and tail which are safety zones for pedestr... more » Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it: I live in the city where most people have to street park on a daily basis. Almost everyone gets their bumpers chipped and scraped and it just makes th... more » Electro Gyrocator: Who is going to buy these cars and not have full coverage insurance on them? I think that's why people don't really care about this stuff. Nobody is g... more » 2trips: The IIHS fails to take into account that if my bumper is damaged, I will replace it with 2X4, re-bar and barbed wire. Maximum repair cost: $20 more » MaWeiTao: What I'm trying to figure out is how it is that the two domestic cars are so much more expensive to repair than the foreign ones. And the Maxima, whic... more » MushyHeirloom: This is all. more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: Maybe we don't need to go back to '70s-style 5-MPH bumpers, but I think it'd help if the "bumpers" were less integrated into the bodywork. The bumper... more » narf: Beyond the lack of rebars and bumper shocks is also that corner lights are fully integrated into headlights nowadays. Instead of a $50 replacement, i... more » Rockford Brodie and the Masters of the Hooniverse: How is the Accord "marginal"? I had to induce a cornea-bursting squint for like 30 seconds, which is the longest amount of time I've ever looked at a... more » PowerTryp, Starless wonder.: Listen the reason it's costing an arm and a leg and your first born child isn't because the cars get more damaged than before, it's because the manufa... more » HurtsSoGood: Is it too much to expect that bumpers actually do their job, which is to protect the rest of the car from the kind of minor bumps that are kind of ine... more » roaduscarnivorous: once again the gm product came in last. the damage on the fusion, 6, accord, and sonata really don't look that bad. i'd probably just leave it or look... more » P161911 probably shoudn't have: Bring back real BUMPERS! The battering rams of the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s might have been a little ugly, but they worked! Appliance cars such as t... more » Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II: I don't get it. I was backed into in a parking garage in Royal Oak. I was in a demo 2008 Chevy Malibu. The guy was drunk and backed up close to what t... more » bmoreDLJ: It's doubtful you can have a front end that's easy to fix AND pretty. The big protruding rubber bumpers of yore got the job done, but I can't imagine ... more » -
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IIHS: No Mid-Size Cars Score "Good" In Low-Speed Collisions
The IIHS has performed another round of slow-speed bumper tests, this time demonstrating all mid-size sedans will cost you a pretty penny to repair in slow speed collisions. See how your favorite appliance auto did below. More »
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2009 Mazda6 Grand Touring: First Drive
The 2009 Mazda6 is supposed to be the driver's car in the mid-size sedan segment. Considering it competes with the Camry, that's not exactly a challenge. Still, can it get us hot and bothered? More » -
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2009 Mazda6, Reviewed
The 2009 Mazda6 is supposed to be "the first of Mazda's "Zoom-Zoom Evolution" second-generation vehicles" — whatever that means. Although we've yet to get a chance to drive the Zoomage — we'll be in the driver's seat sometime in mid-June — our friends at Popular Mechanics have spent some time behind the wheel. We have to say we're intrigued to find what the new Mazda6 for 2009 will provide — it's bigger, wider and yes, more uncut than the last one. So we're hoping the new Ford-designed and Mazda-built engine — the same 3.7-liter, 272 HP V6 found in the CX-9 — will give it the oomph it needs to, you know, push it further and faster than the last one. Does the 2009 Mazda6 satisfy that desire? Head on over and find out. [Popular Mechanics] -
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2009 Mazda6 Pricing Revealed In Online Survey, Starts Under $20,000
Looks like Mazda is shopping around pricing and package options among its most die hard fans (like Zach at Mazda6club.com) and there is quite a range of trim and options. Spread across seven different option levels, the Mazda6 looks like it will start in the neighborhood of $19,850 for the Mazda6 i SV with the 170 HP four, and an array of options and will go all the way up to $29,150 for the gee-whiz Mazda6 s Grand Touring with a 272 HP 3.7L V6 and nearly every gadget and gee-gaw you can think of. Complete breakdown with all known options below — keep in mind this is still subject to change, but we're pretty impressed with what they've put together at this point More » -
