Halftime Update: 2016.5 Mazda CX-5 Gets More Standard Content, New Pricing
It’s a holiday miracle! Or, more realistically, it’s merely Mazda reacting to what customers want. Mazda is introducing the rare mid-model-year update to its CX-5 crossover, which was just refreshed for 2016, dubbing the result a “2016.5” model and adding a few key features as standard equipment.
These days, if a car doesn’t come with navigation or a backup camera, it might as well be a horse cart. Mazda knows this, and thus has made a backup camera standard on every CX-5 with an automatic transmission?which is pretty much every CX-5, save for the base Sport, which still offers an honest-to-shiftness six-speed manual but continues to not offer a backup camera. (Automatic-equipped Sports gain the backup camera.) The camera’s standard fitment saves Sport buyers the $400 previously required for the Rear View Camera package, which also brought a 7-inch touch-screen audio system that also is now standard. Mazda has raised the CX-5 Sport’s price accordingly, but an $80 increase in the destination charge brings the total increase to $480, meaning an automatic-equipped Sport now starts at $24,495. The all-wheel drive model’s price jumps $470 to $25,795. The base, manual-transmission Sport’s price increase of $80 directly correlates to the destination charge increase of $80 over 2016 model-year CX-5s.
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