Enough to make you want a 2015 CX-5? Perhaps not, but the best is yet to come. The lighting around the air conditioning controls has been changed from orange to white and the dials behind the steering wheel swapped for classier items. The console that houses the rotary controls is higher and wider than before thanks, in part, to the swapping out of the old mechanical handbrake in favour of an electronic unit. This has been cut down to two - a centrally located rotary dial and steering wheel controls - a much better implementation. Beforehand, the CX-5's multimedia system had four methods of control (touchscreen, steering wheel buttons, iDrive-like rotary dial and cheap looking switchgear beside the screen). Cheap plastics are kept to a minimum and everything looks and feels more premium. The interior, a weak point of the CX-5 when it was released three years ago, has been thoroughly overhauled - receiving the 'Europeanised' cabin first seen in the Mazda3. Ok there are a couple of new colours (Sonic Silver is all new and Titanium Flash comes over from the Mazda3 palette), but as facelifts go, this one qualifies as 'barely there.'Īctually, Mazda doesn't call this refresh a facelift, more an update and it is inside the cabin where you will notice the biggest change. You really do need a 2014 model to hand (or work in Mazda marketing) to spot the fact that slats have now replaced honeycomb in the grille, the foglight bezels have been tweaked to match the grille, LEDs added to lights front and rear and. Try not to blink while looking at images of the 2015 Mazda CX-5 for if you do you will completely miss the changes, to the exterior anyway. Mazda CX-5 can finally lay claim to being a 'premium' crossover thanks to a classy new interior, advanced tech and better refinement.
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