{"id":22589,"date":"2018-07-19T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=22589"},"modified":"2018-07-19T16:16:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T20:16:57","slug":"payne-who-needs-luxury-gmc-acadia-vs-mazda-cx-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/payne-who-needs-luxury-gmc-acadia-vs-mazda-cx-9","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Who needs luxury? GMC Acadia vs. Mazda CX-9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m as weak as the next guy. Set me up with a shapely Audi A7 sedan. Or a cheetah-quick Porsche Boxster GTS. Or an explosively powerful, 707-horse Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. Ooooooh, I would rob a bank to get them in my garage.<\/p>\n

But try to sell me a\u00a0 three-row family\u00a0luxury SUV and I\u2019m more rational. Five-door utility and fundamental physics have made some mainstream vehicles as desirable as their premium peers.<\/p>\n

Take the upwardly mobile $43,445 Mazda CX-9 and $43,145 GMC Acadia sport utilities\u00a0I\u2019ve been hanging out in.<\/p>\n

These two mainstream brands have translated their (respectively) sports car and truck DNA into family haulers that are easy on the eyes, tech savvy\u00a0and fun to drive. In so doing they have largely closed the gap with luxury brands costing $15,000 more (the price of a nice, used Mazda 3 for your 16-year-old).<\/p>\n

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With its stylish good looks and peppy, turbo-4, the 2018 Mazda CX-9 brings a premium, three-row SUV to the market with a mainstream price tag.\u00a0\u00a0Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/span><\/div>\n
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