I love this company

>>makes nothing but

>Building road to connect the commercial and industrial areas.
>Engineer trying to use terrain to make it as cost effective but also as efficient as possible
>MCFRF (Mazda Certified Fun Road Force) inspector steps in
>Give engineering team failures left right and center because there aren't enough turns, switch backs, fords, elevation changes, togues, etc.
>Pic related, the lead engineer

>fun = scenic
okay

unfortunately, soccer moms are a much larger consumer base than enthusiasts, so yeah they gotta make dosh selling crossovers to stacies to fund the enthusiast stuff.
Porsche did this with the cayenne and panamera, lambo has the urus, ferarri has some ugly shit too, and Bentley makes some godawful looking cars for trophy wives.
it is what it is, but deep down, mazda still cares about enthusiasts at the very least.

I fail to see the problem

Too many distractions between texting, facebook, instagram, snapchat, etc.

They regularly feel the need to juggle all of the above social media accounts while driving.

Why though? Cant you just drive and check your phone when you get there?

Mazda Highway 35 when?

>make FWD, 15:1 CR crossover cuckmobiles that handle like actual cars
>make economy cars that drive like sports cars
>make some of the best sports cars of all time
>offer manual transmission in nearly everything
What was the problem?

Cool fact about Mazda: if the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima had been a few minutes earlier or never dropped at all, the company would probably not exist. The destruction of the city allowed the Toyo Kogyo factory to become a major employer in the city and from it's success it became Mazda. Jujiro Matsuda missed being caught in the blast by minutes simply because he managed to be first in line for a haircut that day.

This has been common knowledge for a while. It's called traffic calming curves.

Build curves into the road and drivers pay a lot of attention and slow down to a pace that's determined by their skill instead of just how good they are at disregarding risk. The road going past a local college did this and just made chicane after chicane so drivers would be forced to watch the road, using the idea that if racing drivers have trouble with nailing one chicane, regular drivers will never figure out how to blow through ten of them.

Go there at night and people on scooters and motorcycles fucking love it

FWD vehicles are the ultimate entry level enthusiast car

Trail brake hard into a corner, entirely too hard, kicking the ass out, and them mash the gas and pull straight again. Also scandi flick. Just turn the fucking wheel. It's that easy. FWD = easy to have fun.

More of a German car guy but I have to give props to Mazda. First for their project skyactiv and now for actually trying to spread the idea of driving as something enjoyable.

The skill ceiling is quite high too, there's a lot of room for skill development with a well-sorted FWD car. Not just ripping a skid but doing it with just the right amount of throttle and the tiniest bit of countersteer and having the car already pointing where you want it to go is incredibly satisfying.

But there's not a lot of transference to FR, MR, and RR cars. What works in FWD kills you with RWD if you're not a top 1% driver. The only advanced thing that carries over is remaining calm and controlling the car instead of panicking.

If you drive MR like FR you'll die too. In fact, more skills transfer from FF to MR than from FR to MR.

>chop throttle in corner, FF
Understeer averted
>chop throttle in corner, MR/Motorcycle
Death.

>Understeer averted
Only if you were already understeering. Otherwise, lift-off oversteer. Especially over dips in torsion beam cars.

Meanwhile, while lift-off oversteering:
>Recenter steering too slowly in FR
Not a big deal, will catch it on the next swing.
>Recenter steering too slowly in FF
Go backwards.
>Recenter steering too slowly in RR
Go backwards.
>Recenter steering too slowly in MR
Go backwards and DIE.

Yes, you CAN power out in FF, but most people will learn it AFTER they learn to recenter quickly.

FWD is shit. Quit trying to polish a turd

I used to believe this meme until I got front engine rwd. Oversteer on rwd = let off throttle
oversteer on FWD = spin around and hope not to hit anything
Front engine rwd is safest. That is a fact. God intended for that layout to be the only layout.

>O M G I JUST WANT TO REACH POINT B!!!!! WE NEED STRAIGHT, SHORT ROADS, DRIVING IS LIKE, TOTALLY A WASTE OF TIME!!!! CANT WAIT TO EARN ENOUGH FOR A SELF DRIVING TESLA!!!

seems like you can't drive for shit

>>makes nothing but FWD, 15:1 CR crossover cuckmobiles
dude what even their econoboxes are rwd hot hatches

youre thinking of subary or lexus or something

>togues
A TOGUE IS NOT A ROAD FEATURE RELATED TO TURNING IT JUST MEANS "MOUNTAIN PASS" REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Wow you couldn't know less about what you're talking about

the metro station near my work has chicanes on the bike path through it for some reason. I never understood why, are there that many cyclists plowing into people? they're not even chicanes before the path meets the road again, they're literally in the middle of the greenspace around the metro building

pic related, its not these ones, but they look like this

also is it just me or do americans not understand chicanes or know what they are?

what is lift off oversteer

Try thinking about it like a practical engineer would. Touges have curves, it's how land folds and how inclines work out. And chill out, we're all gay here.