{"id":36714,"date":"2026-09-24T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36714"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:49:52","slug":"payne-road-trip-in-the-bmw-lite-mazda-cx-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/payne-road-trip-in-the-bmw-lite-mazda-cx-70","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Road trip in the BMW-Lite, Mazda CX-70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/09\/21\/PDTN\/91881064007-mazda-cx-70-side.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Watkins Glen, New York - The 2026 Mazda CX-70 comes standard with a sporty, turbo-6 engine that offers 280 or 340 horsepower.\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Watkins Glen, New York &#8211; The 2026 Mazda CX-70 comes standard with a sporty, turbo-6 engine that offers 280 or 340 horsepower.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Watkins Glen, New York<\/em> \u2014 Atop the hills overlooking Seneca Lake, Watkins Glen International Raceway is one of America\u2019s greatest racetracks with a history of hosting everything from Formula One to endurance sportscar to NASCAR races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But before the dedicated, 3.5-mile track opened in 1956, sportscars raced on an epic, 6.6-mile road course crafted from local public roads. The road course is now a historic landmark \u2014 its byways still traversed by daily commuters. Anyone can take laps in their vehicle, which I did on a recent road trip from Detroit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In a 2026 Mazda CX-70 SUV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/09\/24\/payne-affordable-fun-mazda-cx-70-is-bmw-x5-lite\/91875174007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watkins Glen, New York &#8211; The 2026 Mazda CX-70 comes standard with a sporty, turbo-6 engine that offers 280 or 340 horsepower. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Watkins Glen, New York \u2014 Atop the hills overlooking Seneca Lake, Watkins Glen International Raceway is one of America\u2019s greatest racetracks with a history of hosting everything from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36715,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36714\/revisions\/36715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}