“We have a consistent driving experience that we want to have. “What we’re trying to do with the driving modes is have the car drive the same way in different conditions,” explained Dave Coleman, Mazda’s Manager of Vehicle Dynamics.
There are different selectable driving modes available, but the point isn’t to endow the CX-90 with multiple personalities. The all-wheel drive system is biased toward rear-drive operation with the front wheels often freewheeling to reduce parasitic drag. It all concludes with a 3.692:1 final drive ratio. The transmission’s gearset keeps the first five gears close, goes direct drive in sixth, with seventh an overdrive and eighth an even deeper overdrive. So, we make it a longer but slender transmission.” So, all those things considered and, more importantly, the fact that we can design and package it ourselves. It starts intruding into cabin space, starts throwing off the engine balance with engine hanging over the front axle. “So, a straight-six and a torque converter and whatever transmission behind it is going to take up a lot of space. “A straight six is long,” explains Powertrain Performance Manager Jay Chen, stating the obvious. In fact, the CX-90’s wheelbase is down only 0.9 inches from that of the 2011 Lincoln Town Car.Ī clutch also has packaging advantages. All three are close in overall length and width, but the CX-90 has its wheels pushed to the corners and that generous wheelbase gives it a damn-near limo-like road presence.
And it’s 8.6 inches longer than that of the Hyundai Palisade’s wheelbase. That wheelbase is nine inches longer than the new Honda Pilot’s. It’s also big enough compared to the competition. It’s also 992 pounds more than what Mazda says the heaviest version of the CX-50 SUV it introduced last year weighs. Let’s go to the archives… yup, that’s as much as two examples of the original 1990 Miata, plus another 479 pounds. With a big turbocharged straight-six under its long schnoz, three rows of seats under its long roof, and standard all-wheel drive inside its long 122.8-inch wheelbase, the top CX-90 weighs in, claims Mazda, at 4899 pounds. Not to be confused with the XC90, which is a Volvo.
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