2006 MAZDA6 facelift/updates
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2006 MAZDA6 facelift/updates
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Changes:
Exterior-
New front grille design
New front/rear bumpers
New side sill garnish design
New black bezels for front/rear lights
New 16-, 17- and 18-inch alloys
Front fog lamps integrated in bumper facia
Available HID headlights
New Exterior colors (Dark Cherry and Tungsten Gray for Sports Sedan & Sport Wagon, Bright Island Blue and Tungsten Gray for 5-Door)
Interior-
New trim materials, including thicker armrest material
Door handles front/rear on passenger side
Dark Titanium colored center panel
New sporty seat design and new cloth fabric
Comfort and Entertainment-
Voice control navigation system available
Powertrain-
Refined 2.3-liter and 3.0-liter engines (V6 now rated at 215 hp, 199 ft-lb torque)
New five-speed Sport Shift AT automatic transmission for 2.3-liter engines
Chassis -
Retuned front and rear suspension bushings
Changes:
Exterior-
New front grille design
New front/rear bumpers
New side sill garnish design
New black bezels for front/rear lights
New 16-, 17- and 18-inch alloys
Front fog lamps integrated in bumper facia
Available HID headlights
New Exterior colors (Dark Cherry and Tungsten Gray for Sports Sedan & Sport Wagon, Bright Island Blue and Tungsten Gray for 5-Door)
Interior-
New trim materials, including thicker armrest material
Door handles front/rear on passenger side
Dark Titanium colored center panel
New sporty seat design and new cloth fabric
Comfort and Entertainment-
Voice control navigation system available
Powertrain-
Refined 2.3-liter and 3.0-liter engines (V6 now rated at 215 hp, 199 ft-lb torque)
New five-speed Sport Shift AT automatic transmission for 2.3-liter engines
Chassis -
Retuned front and rear suspension bushings
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From what I recall they dyno much like the 8 too. It's about time they come with those options, especially the HIDs. The headlights on my wife's 6 (before we traded it for the STi) sucked *****. Also why they made NAV and HIDs available on the 3 before the 6 never made sense to me at all.
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Oh a loss of 2 hp, maybe the emissions was cleaned up a bit.
Did they add variable resonance to the V6, that would explain the torque increase.
and add refinement/mileage.
When will the new 3.5 come? The 3.0 still blows.
Why no 6 speed automatic on the 2.3?
Did they add variable resonance to the V6, that would explain the torque increase.
and add refinement/mileage.
When will the new 3.5 come? The 3.0 still blows.
Why no 6 speed automatic on the 2.3?
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There isn't any engine changes supposedly. Mazda is just "re-rating" the engine based on its actual performance. Dyno's indicate we were overrated on hp (go figure right?) and underrated a bit on torque. Looks like the new numbers reflect that, though we still think its more like 210/200.
Thanks for posting the photos. Btw the Euro 6i gets a 6spd MTX. The US one doesn't though...sigh .
Thanks for posting the photos. Btw the Euro 6i gets a 6spd MTX. The US one doesn't though...sigh .
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Yeah--the Mazda 6s are nice--sidenote I did the 1/4 on Gran Turismo 4 with the Mazdaspeed 6 and it pulled a 14.2. Slightly higher than my pass in an RX8--so I kept running the 8 until I got a 14.0 pass.
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Originally Posted by DreRX8
Yeah--the Mazda 6s are nice--sidenote I did the 1/4 on Gran Turismo 4 with the Mazdaspeed 6 and it pulled a 14.2. Slightly higher than my pass in an RX8--so I kept running the 8 until I got a 14.0 pass.
BTW, was your GT4 RX-8 stock when you got 14 secs? The best 1/4 mi. I could pull with a stock RX-8 was 14.4 in GT4. But I wasn't trying real hard.
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Well while of course you wouldn't use its results as real life but you can compare two cars in the same game In all honesty they are actually very close to real world projections save for the environmental/weight differences. Its a decent theoretical indicator--they are in a wide ballpark of actual performance.
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