We don't get the Mazda6 wagon in the States but it's still fun to play around with it at Geneva. Reese Counts takes us on a quick walkaround of the wagon we'd love to get our Yankee hands on. For our complete coverage of the 88th Geneva International Motor Show head to https://www.autoblog.com/geneva-motor-show/.
TranscriptREESE COUNTS: Hi everybody. Reese Counts with Autoblog. Today we are here at the 88th Geneva International Motor Show standing in front of the new Mazda6 wagon, a car I love, you will probably love, but unfortunately we don't get in America.
Mazda styling is fantastic nearly across the board. They call it this KODO design language, and everything, especially in this Soul Red, looks great.
But look. It's the longer-- it's the wagon version of the Mazda6, one of my favorite sedans on the market right now. It takes everything that we love about the standard Mazda that you can see in the States.
But let's open up the hatch and look at this room. So the seats are up, but you pull this handle here and they fall down, which is pretty nifty. We'll do it on the other side too. Yeah. Look. So flat load.
We can roll open the back door. Plenty of space in here. This is what we all love about wagons. They look good. They have all the practicality.
We were talking about this at the office. If this would be like slightly higher riding, like the Audi allroad or the Buick TourX, it could get a lot of traffic. But let's take a quick look inside.
You step inside, and it's more of the same. It's this clean, handsome, design language with just a few materials and sprinkled very well.
I don't like this piano black. You can probably see there's scratches and fingerprints all along it right here. But get rid of that. And I mean, it wouldn't stop me from buying this.
I really like this kind of flat wood grain. It's maybe a little hard to see in the light, but-- This sort of like microsuede across the dash. Nice. I mean, this is just-- this is a very European, the sliding cup holder.
And over here you can see the digital instrument cluster. It's not on right now, obviously, but digital speedometer flanked by analog tach. You can see the needle and some more analog gauges over there. I just-- It's really handsome design, in and out. I just-- I really wish we got the wagon in the States.
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