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Written by Craig Jamieson
Hold back your shock, TopGearians, but we actually quite like the Mazda CX-5. If you really, really need to buy a family SUV, you can do a hell of a lot worse. And spend a hell of a lot of money you really shouldn"t have, just to do a lot worse. It"s probably the handsomest of the SUV brigade OK, sure, that"s like saying the handsomest member of the Macedonian power-weightlifting team, but we digress and its handling is so far above and beyond what anyone will actually ask of it that it earns our respect, begrudging or not. It does that rather excellent thing of providing more than it really needs to in order to fulfil its purpose, and does so without making any kind of song and dance about it. The bad news comes when your significant other looks at you coyly one evening and before you know it, you"ve half a Brady Bunch hanging around your house, and they all have your last name. What do you do then? It"s unlikely you"ll fit your family members and their attendant faff, so you"re left with little option but to go for something about the size of the Costa Concordia and about as enjoyable to be in. Or you spend money like an oligarch"s son and end up with something by Land Rover, which will break on every day that ends in a y".
Date written: 7 Sep 2018
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ID: 13234
Hold back your shock, TopGearians, but we actually quite like the Mazda CX-5. If you really, really need to buy a family SUV, you can do a hell of a lot worse. And spend a hell of a lot of money you really shouldn"t have, just to do a lot worse. It"s probably the handsomest of the SUV brigade OK, sure, that"s like saying the handsomest member of the Macedonian power-weightlifting team, but we digress and its handling is so far above and beyond what anyone will actually ask of it that it earns our respect, begrudging or not. It does that rather excellent thing of providing more than it really needs to in order to fulfil its purpose, and does so without making any kind of song and dance about it. The bad news comes when your significant other looks at you coyly one evening and before you know it, you"ve half a Brady Bunch hanging around your house, and they all have your last name. What do you do then? It"s unlikely you"ll fit your family members and their attendant faff, so you"re left with little option but to go for something about the size of the Costa Concordia and about as enjoyable to be in. Or you spend money like an oligarch"s son and end up with something by Land Rover, which will break on every day that ends in a y".
Date written: 7 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13234
