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Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring AWD, Part 3
Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring AWD, Part 3-March 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:21

You like sitting up high, but need a semblance of sport from your car. You think "drug-addled catfish" is the new design chic. You're five-and-a-half feet tall and prefer just to step sideways to get in and out. You need to lug a few cases of wine home after the Thursday-night tasting.

The Subaru WRX Sport Wagon (shut up, Davey). Or for that matter, the Legacy GT Wagon. Or maybe best of all, the Mazdaspeed3.

· Speed Merchants:

· Fashion Victims:

· Treehuggers: No

· Mack Daddies: No

· Tuner Crowd:

· Hairdressers: No

· Penny Pinchers: No

· Euro Snobs: No

· Working Stiffs: No

· Technogeeks: No

· Poseurs: No

· Soccer Moms:

· Nascar Dads:

· Golfing Grandparents: No

Infiniti FX

Subaru Legacy GT Wagon

· Manufacturer: Mazda

· Model tested: Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring AWD

· Model year: 2007

· Price as Tested: $29,585

· Engine type: 2.3L 16-Valve 4-Cyl Turbo

· Horsepower: 244 hp @ 5000 rpm

· Torque: 258 ft.-lbs. @ 2500 rpm

· Redline: 6750 rpm

· Wheels and Tires: 235/60 R18 tires on 10-spoke alloy wheels

· Drive type: All-wheel drive

· 0 - 60: 7.5 seconds

· 1/4 mile: 15.8 seconds

· Fuel economy city/highway: 18/24

· NHTSA crash test rating front/side/rollover: 5/5/na

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Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring AWD, , [internal]

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