I'm a big fan of Mazda and I agree with most of what Kirk says in the video. Mazda dropped the ball on this one. I don't know which customers they surveyed for this redesign, but apparently they didn't survey the ones who drive their cars. Because if they did, then they would know, that it would be stupid to remove the physical climate controls, the volume knob and the commander knob. Those are some of the features that I actually really love on their cars. And I loved how they were fighting against making everything touch screen in their cars. Well they caved in it seems. And I'm highly disappointed.
I understand that a good number of people didn't like being forced to use the commander knob all the time. In my opinion, there was an easy solution to that issue; simply enable touch screen on their infotainment screen. Let the people who don't want to use the commander knob, touch the screen to do what they want. Instead, they took the route of removing all these useful physical buttons and moved them into this huge laptop sized screen. Well guess what, without the commander knob, it is so much harder to use the infotainment screen without taking your eyes off the road. For a brand that prioritizes the driving experience, this is an idiotic decision.
The move to flat haptic feedback buttons on the steering wheel is another idiotic move. Have they not seen the complaints car reviewers have on the Tiguan and Golf GTI? Most reviews pointed these out as a flaw, a zonk if you will. I have had experience driving a VW Tiguan on a road trip and I wasn't fan of these haptic feedback steering wheel buttons. Also that Tiguan did not have physical buttons for the AC and I hated that as well.
If you're looking to buy a CX-5, especially one with the Turbo, then you need to buy a 2025 model now. The new ones will not come with a Turbo either. Another face palm moment here by the way.
If it was my money, I'm not replacing our 2016 Mazda CX-5 with a 2026 Mazda CX-5. I'll either get the previous model years with the Turbo, or I'm moving up to real luxury brand and find myself a BMW X3 or Audi Q5, reliability be damned.
If this is the new direction they are going, they will lose a lot of their hardcore fans, like me.
I might be misinterpreting this, but I feel like there's a deep meaning to this song. You can't be sad, if you don't love. But you also can't love and not feel sadness. You're only sad, because you love someone, something. And so he's right when he says, “Love is all that you’ll ever need, to keep your sadness evergreen.”
There’s no truth that’s not worth lying for
Heaven ain’t no place worth dying for
Love is all that you’ll ever need
To keep your sadness evergreen
Bite your tongue so you don’t say you’re sorry
All that God has ever fеlt this lonely
Love is all that you’ll evеr need
To keep your sadness evergreen, you know
Sidenote: Love how this band is keeping those emo flames alive.
Cool bike, but okay, I don't understand. A flat bar, gravel bike... is this not just a mountain bike with a rigid fork? It has flat bars and wide tires meant to go off-road. Granted this one is an e-bike. But is this not a just a mountain bike? Or a hybrid bike meant to go off-road, like the new gen Trek Dual Sport with the rigid fork? It's like new categories are being invented all for the sake of marketing something “new”.
You’re always getting me high then you’re pulling me low
Then you beg me to stay, but you want me to go
You’re always telling me “yes” but your answer is “no”
If you want me to guess, I’m just a stranger you know
If you call this winning why do I feel like a loser?
Yeah, an awesome song with great lyrics, but it's also what today feels like for me.
I'm finally moving on from my main blog and so I've decided to spruce up this one. I've added a comments system and fleshed out the About page some more.
The commenting system allows “Guest Comments”, which means it does not require a user to create an account, or login to an account, to leave comments. There is a field to add an email address, but that is optional and only used for notifications. I'm hoping this will encourage more readers to leave comments.
I still have to get a proper domain name for this blog. I'm not sure if I'm staying with the “Micro Dispatch” blog name, or if I'll be changing it to something else, or even if I'm going to simply use the subdomain provided by write.as. One thing for sure is that I don't want to use my personal/professional domain name for this blog. I've done that before and didn't like how it turned out for a personal blog like this one. So yeah, I need to decide on the final blog name before purchasing a domain name.
Update 1:
Also, need to come up with a blog description or subtitle. I always like that feature for write.as blogs and want to make use of it. Just need to come up with a description that is not so similar to the one I used on the main blog that I'm moving on from.