I remember in my Kizashi goodbye thread, you said seeing the photos of my (totaled) Kizashi reminded you of yours, and now I’m getting that same feeling looking at your pictures lol. Anyway, congrats on the new car and welcome (back) to the Mazda fam. I’m glad the CX-50 Hybrid ended up being what yo...

Welcome, bwob. If you’re in SoCal, I think you may have gotten your Kizashi from the same used car dealer I got mine at years ago. They had a white SLS with about 106k miles for sale recently. The owner of the dealership loves the Kizashi, and always gets them at auto auctions when he can. It was al...

Shortly after I posted the comment above, I came across articles stating Honda is finally releasing a CR-V Trailsport. Given the powertrains of the CR-V currently available, there is a strong chance the Trailsport will be available as a hybrid. This certainly would be a worthy contender to consider...

I totally agree that Toyotas seem to largely sell themselves on a perceived reputation. Their actual cars are definitely behind the curve in design, driving experience, and refinement but Toyotas have generally better reliability and definitely a consumer base that believes they are superior as a b...

I love my Kizashi and I've had relatively good luck with it so far, but after paying a pretty hefty fine for a belt tensioner, I'm starting to think this car doesn't actually match up to what I can do financially if something breaks. Nobody in my area wants to work on this car, I've had one place p...

It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s one of those folks who thinks the Kizashi is actually a Chevy, due to their partnership with Suzuki that ended not too long before the Kizashi released. There’s some misinformation on the internet that the Kizashi is more or less a Chevy Cruze (lol), despite how the K...

Oops, I didn’t intend for the videos to embed like that. I had planned on writing the post on computer and uploading the screenshots from my phone. Second pic is zoomed in fwiw. It’s not as obviously a Kizashi without zoom.

I've got a couple of YouTube car review cameos by the Kizashi that I've been sitting on for a while now, just never got around to screenshot the moments they happened. I can't help but wonder how many times the Kizashi has popped up randomly in the background of videos that I'll never see. Oddly eno...

Anything Auto (formerly Jeffrey Wayne), who has done more Kizashi maintenance YouTube videos than anyone else by far, happened to recently upload one on servicing the CVT: https://youtu.be/lVXIbePw7EI?si=NIfZmP0kpcsxRcPq I myself planned on replacing the fluid on my Kizashi, but was too much of a ma...

CVT fluid from Toyota and Castrol are both red. The Castrol is said to be a good fluid in the Kizashi.