With Memorial Day just around the bend, vacation time is nearly here, and Mazda families are preparing to head out for fun and excitement on the road... some Zoom-Zoom if you will, and if you own a Mazda, you will! Just don't go overboard like Top Gear episode which featured the Mazda CX5 in a race towing a travel trailer, or as they are known in the UK, a caravan. This episode presented a classic case of pushing the CX5 to its limits, which was not a problem at all for the Mazda, but was a completely different story for the poor trailer/caravan. You can check out the flashback for the event on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xfaPoe-gU .

    Yeah, the trailer gets a little tore up, but the CX5 takes all that's dished out, and ends up winning the race, and annoying the locale clientele at the camp grounds to boot. All in all, a great day for Mazda and the CX5!

   If you have not had the chance to check out the CX5 yourself, then feel free to head over the Ricart Mazda in The Ricart Megamall and take one for a spin... but you will have to do it without towing a trailer behind you for the sole purpose of turning it into kindling, which of course, goes without saying. Even without the trailer, the CX5 is still going to be the most fun you've had driving a crossover!

   See you on the road this summer!

    

 

It's show time, then test drive time at Ricart Mazda!

   An auto show is like a movie. You can see what it’s all about, but you can’t actually experience any of it. For that, you’ve gotta be in the real world! That’s why we love it every year when the Columbus Auto Show comes to the Greater Columbus Convention Center, and folks have the chance to see what’s new on the road, what’s on the horizon, and sometimes an early peek at what’s on the drawing board in the automotive industry.
   
Having a bunch of different cars, trucks, SUV’s, and crossovers all in one place, it’s a car enthusiasts dream, and a car shopper’s candy store! The only problem is you can’t drive the vehicles at the car show. Sure, you can sit in some of them, but you can’t grab the keys (or just push the start button) to fire up your favorite ride and tool around the extra wide hallways in the Convention Center, or up and down the aisles in the Exhibition Hall! That kind of activity definitely does not fit with proper auto show decorum, and will probably get you arrested. Actually, that’s pretty much a guaranteed criminal record and guest appearance in the next Need for Speed game!
   
So, let’s say you saw something you really like at the auto show, but where can you put it through its paces, safely and legally? Umm… that’s exactly the reason why we have as many vehicles as we do at The Ricart Megamall, and as many kinds of vehicles we have! It’s easy to compare and contrast vehicles when you can do it at one location with no fuss and no muss!
   
Whether you go to The Columbus Auto Show every year, or have never been, when the time comes to see what that new ride you’ve been thinking about is like when rubber actually hits blacktop, just stop by the Ricart Megamall. We’ll be waiting for you.