Mazda (and Subaru) are going to end up as part of Toyota before too long (not just collaborating like they presently do) so it’s not a surprising stance IMO

Neither. Civic or 3 does everything better than those tiny crossovers. If you must go for small crossover at least go up to the CX-30

Looks fairly similar inside to the Atto 3 which has been out for a while.

Personally after spending a bunch of time in the Model 3, Atto 3 and Polestar 2 I think I prefer the BYD - it’s a good middle ground between the cave-like Polestar and overly minimalistic Tesla. There are definitely still some software quirks though and gimmicks though.

AU Falcon had a weird grille, AU2 went back to something normal looking

AU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon_(AU)#/media/File:1998_Ford_Falcon_(AU)_Fort%C3%A9_sedan_(17196313703).jpg

AUII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon_(AU)#/media/File:2000-2001_Ford_Falcon_(AU_II)_Fort%C3%A9_sedan_(13897447116).jpg

Unfortunately it took another generation to get rid of the weird shaped Taurus inspired windscreen

5 is an older model station wagon. It isn’t on a dedicated EV platform like the newer 4, and only uses the MG brand outside of China.

The cluster is saying the car is roughly half charged (6/12 of the longer bars) and the battery is at about half of its original health (6/12 shorter bars). You can get more precise readings with an ODB reader and Leafspy.

The bars on the left hand side are battery temperature - 5 bars there means the battery is at a good temperature (I see a noticeable drop in range when there are four or fewer temperature bars showing)

I just clicked on a few Konas and Ioniqs and they all said ‘SoH certificate available soon/on request’

Outside of Tesla (where even the basic models are quite powerful) I don’t think this is universally true. Something like a base id.4 or Ioniq 5 isn’t exactly a rocket ship, and some of the Chinese city models like the base BYD Dolphin are downright slow

CX-3 ain’t completely dead yet, it’s still available in Japan and Australia/NZ

Personally i don’t see the point, the 2 and 3 hatches are better vehicles all around