2019 Mazda CX-5 GT AWD Detailed Walk Around, Test Drive, & Review

Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Cars Unlocked. My name is Christopher. Today we're going to be unlocking the 2019 Mazda CX-5. Today we're looking at the 2019 GT model in the sole red crystal metallic. Again, as always, special thanks to St. Catharines Mazda for providing the vehicle here for us to review. If you have any questions about the vehicle, do not hesitate to contact them. I'll put their website in the description below. And as always guys, if you want to see more, subscribe to my channel. So the crossovers are super popular here in North America and the Mazda CX-5 doesn't disappoint. Looking at the front end, it is a very long front nose here. Everything comes LED on this GT package. Our headlights, we have the LED signature headlights with the adaptive lighting system. The LED fogs are down below as well. Super large front Mazda emblem, that's for the iActiveSense. It's going to come with all your forward sensors and everything on there, which I'll get to in a second. And then we do have a nice luxury looking and chrome front accent, just to give it a high end look. Really shines nice on a day like today in the sun. The LED lighting continues on the back, so our taillights are also in the LED. This one is obviously in the all wheel drive, so we can see our CX-5 badging as well. And then obviously Mazda's very popular SkyActive technology badge on the left hand side. There is a backup camera obviously on this vehicle, it's going to be right below your Mazda emblem. It's going to come with these 19 inch silver aluminum alloy rims and then factory all seasons. So this GT signature package comes exclusive with the turbocharged engine. So it's the SkyActive G 2.5 turbo. It's a four cylinder engine. It's going to give you about 250 horsepower and 310 pounds feet of torque. Direct injection, regular fuel. For fuel economy, this one is in the all wheel drive. Being the turbo, you're going to get about 10.8 liters per every 100 kilometers in the city and 8.7 on the highway. With Mazda's iActive sense, you get all the safety features that they really offer with this car. The blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, lane departure warning, adaptive front lighting system, high beam control, smart city brake support, pedestrian detection, the radar cruise, and the traffic sign recognition. I could go on forever with the amount of technology in this car. So the key didn't change much from the previous models. It's just a regular Mazda key. In my other review of the Mazda 3, I did show you the new fob that they released with that. With the CX-5, you do have the same key with our lock, unlock, trunk release, and panic button. No remote start on the CX-5. One little disappointment for me, perfect for this time of year, but we can still unlock the car. That's what my channel is all about. Even though there's no remote start, you do get the nice keyless access. There's a button on the door. I can just push it to lock and unlock the car as long as I have the fob in the proximity. One cool thing that I really like is when you press the button to lock the car, the mirrors automatically fold in. This is going to help when you're in tight parking spots and things like that. Once I press the button to unlock the door, it folds back out so I'm ready to start driving. As you enter into the Mazda CX-5, the interior looks very, very classy. The job that they did with the stitching, very premium, high-end stitching you can tell with this nice leather. Everything is soft, all the surfaces. There's a lot of soft surfaces throughout the vehicle, which is going to make for a comfier ride. And then we do have this nice wood accents that go throughout the car with the silver trims around the vents and around the doors. It gives it a nice high-end luxury feel as you're getting into it. Right away when I sit in the car, I sit in this very comfortable seat. To get the brown leather, you have to go up to the signature package. This is just the regular GT leather with the nice stitching. It's a two-way memory seat, so there's two positions for the driver's seat, and then we have an eight-way adjustable power driver's seat as well with the lumbar support. The front two seats are heated, so that's going to help in the wintertime, and it also comes with the rear heated seats as well. Looking at the wheel, there's a leather-wrapped steering wheel. It is a heated steering wheel, and we do have our steering wheel mounted controls here for that smart radar cruise, our Bluetooth for our phone, and our volume control here. The infotainment system is the same throughout all trim lines, as this one comes with this nice seven-inch touchscreen display. It is very vivid. The picture ratio is very high. You can make out the words. Everything is nice right on the screen. It does look like a very high-end screen. I also can control the buttons with the dial down below, which is in the center of the dash. I can do things like the GPS navigation, obviously my Bluetooth audio streaming the radio. This one comes with the center point to surround technology and the audio pilot with the noise compensation, so it's going to help just prevent engine noise from overpowering the radio. This one being the high-end GT package, you're also going to get the Bose audio sound system, which is going to enhance the music. The heating is all digital. We have our heated seat controls, and the front seats are also ventilated, so it will cool the seats down in the summer. Nice large storage unit here right by our 12-volt input there. Nice glossy finish to the center stack here where our shifter is. I can adjust my sport mode as well, flip it into sport mode if I want that bit more acceleration. Here's what I really like about this car. It does have that center dial here, which is going to control our infotainment system, our radio, and our nav buttons, and then we do have just a dial, so a lot of things cars are missing now. It's just a nice standard volume dial, so I can turn the radio up. Electric parking brake just creates a bit more space in the center console. In the rear, the ventilation is in the back, which is going to just help heat up the car faster. We do have the front seats in the furthest back position, so I feel a little bit tight like this, but I don't think anybody's going to drive like that with the seat all the way back unless they're Shaquille O'Neal. That nice leather continues throughout the back, and then the center armrest folds down. I really like how the heated seat controls are right in the center armrest here, so the two seats are heated as well, and then I do have a bit of phone storage and two USBs. I can charge my phone. These are the fast-charging USBs, so perfect for all your entertainment and accessory need. All right, so let's open the trunk and take a look at the cargo. It is a power liftgate. With these seats folded up, you get about 875 liters of cargo space, so there is a lot of space back here, so behind the wheel of this 2.5, there is quite a bit of power, especially that we're in the turbo. You would think that the turbo has a bit of a louder sound, but you can't really hear it. It is a loud engine, but it sounds the exact same as the 2.5s. What I mentioned in my Mazda 3 review that I really like is this heads-up display. It's going to show you the speedometer right in the windshield there. Other than that, the car is a lovely drive. There's a lot of, like I said, soft spots while we're driving it, so my elbow is comfortable here. I can control the radio right with the dial in the center armrest, and with all the technology that comes, it really makes for a fun drive in this high-end package. I'm happy that the guys at St. Catharines Mazda gave me the GT model. Here we're putting our foot down. It does accelerate very, very quickly with this turbo package compared to the regular 2.5. So, thanks again for watching, guys. Do me a favor. Hit that like button. If you have any questions about the Mazda CX-5, don't hesitate to ask me in the comments section below. If you want to see more cars being unlocked, please consider subscribing.