Neat article in the new Car and Driver: "Mazdaspeed 5" - Page 2 - The Ford Focus Forum

**biscuitninja** · 07-03-2009, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by f2focus

The Mazda 5 is our next project car.....I cannot wait to see how it turns out....

eagerly awaits the pure awesomeness that might come out of it....

I've been thinking about this for a while now. The only issue is tuning, mazda is falling down on the tuning issue.

-bix

**ZXTHR33** · 07-03-2009, 03:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Nliiitend1

Quick question... does anybody know what wheels these are? I read the article and didn't see anything mentioned. Thanks!

**Nliiitend1** · 07-03-2009, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ZXTHR33

Quick question... does anybody know what wheels these are? I read the article and didn't see anything mentioned. Thanks!

Those are Mazdaspeed Accessory wheels, made by Rays Engineering. They're 18x7.5, 5x114.3 bolt pattern, 67.1 hub bore, and I believe they're et50-ish offset-wise. They're available in both forged aluminum and magnesium versions, both of which are quite expensive...IIRC, the forged aluminum ones weigh something like 7.7 kg and cost like $500 each...

**ZXTHR33** · 07-03-2009, 02:16 PM

Oh. Well... that's cool. They look really nice, and hearing that they're lightweight doesn't help much.

**bustonit** · 07-03-2009, 07:53 PM

I found the 5 to be loud, as in lots of road noise, and had twitchy steering. Kinda cramped also. Ok, but nothing special.

**VizualXTacyZX3** · 07-03-2009, 08:15 PM

waste of money IMO but whatever..

**Reedicus26** · 07-03-2009, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bustonit

I found the 5 to be loud, as in lots of road noise, and had twitchy steering. Kinda cramped also. Ok, but nothing special.

I dream of cars that have steering that can be described as "twitchy". Much better than "do they use rope for linkage?".

**f2focus** · 07-04-2009, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by biscuitninja

eagerly awaits the pure awesomeness that might come out of it....

I've been thinking about this for a while now. The only issue is tuning, mazda is falling down on the tuning issue.

-bix

As for the tuning we have been working that for sometime...and a solution is right around the corner...the tuning issue is an issue for us period but as we are preparing for SCT tuning in house we are also preparing for Mazda reflashes in house....

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