For CP, it also required a ~$50 MFi compliant USB hub/ports that was about a 5 minute swap for the original part (i.e., "minimal hardware needed").
Who buys Mazda6 anyway? That segment is dead.
Mazda is my favorite car maker. Hope to get a new CX-5 with this installed.
I've rented a few cars with CarPlay, and I have to say I find it frustrating. I understand that it's meant to be a simplified and less distracting interface, but it's laggy enough and the touch screen interfaces have been flakey enough, that I find it more distracting.
I keep thinking I need to just build a landscape iPad dock into my dash that would route power and audio through.
Good grief, it's about time. I bought another car last time (Honda Civic) because it supported CarPlay and no Mazdas did. Since I liked the two cars roughly equally, that was the determining factor. Mazda literally lost a ~$30K car sale because of dragging their feet on this.
Part of me is wondering “why now?” for all the car makers to recently add CarPlay as an option to their product line. Has some feature(s) been added or some restrictions that auto makers felt was unreasonable for Apple to demand been removed or modified?
Depends on where you live (on a global scale). In lots of countries estate versions of a particular car are much more popular than the sedan. And now of course SUV/Crossover or whatever they're called still rise in popularity pretty much everywhere.No it isn't? People still buy sedans, and will likely continue buying sedans after the crossover fad becomes a bad memory.
On the contrary, last year they said support was coming so I purchased a Mazda3 in good faith. My mistake it seems.
I drive a 2017 Mazda CX5 and it is a great value vehicle
I really have no desire for Car Play though, so lack of it never factored in my car choice
If it was retro to the 2017, I might try it out, but honestly it doesn't have any real appeal to me
Only if it has the optional 3-1/2" floppy drive ...
I highly doubt anyone with a Mazda older than 2018 will be able to get it retroactively loaded. Mazda is in the business of selling cars, with probably very little concern of older vehicles.
I have the '17 cx-5 as well but I'm on the other end of the pendulum on this one for carplay. The included mazda connect nav is a step up from a garmin but still doesn't compare to a real time connected system like with google or apple maps; I think this used to be different before they discontinued connected services. Also, the music playback architecture of the mazda connect is similar to something you'd find in the early 2000s except it has a more modern design.
Who buys Mazda6 anyway? That segment is dead.
You paid about 30k for a Civic?Good grief, it's about time. I bought another car last time (Honda Civic) because it supported CarPlay and no Mazdas did. Since I liked the two cars roughly equally, that was the determining factor. Mazda literally lost a ~$30K car sale because of dragging their feet on this.
Loaded Touring, final bill was close to $30K with everything (a bit under that though). This was in early 2016 when it was a brand new car model, it was in high demand so not a lot of big discounts to be had.You paid about 30k for a Civic?
same here I did my research and narrowed down to the Mazda 6 and Subaru. Subaru lost in part because at least I could play music wirelessly to Mazda connect and I liked how it drove better. its a 2016 so at least I can do the retrofit if it comes. I have been pleased now with the Mazda 6 as per the reviews I read before buying.I have one. I love it.