Arosa's car thread: CX-5 with Mugen TT wheels? Yes, you can!

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Saw one in black cruising by a couple of days ago and remembered you just purchased one of these... very nice ride Lars! 👍 I like it :D
Thanks. I keep loving it more and more and more, the way everything works together (suspension, diff, powah!) is so extremely well balanced. 👍

Sounds a lot like the system HSV uses in their range, sure would be a cool feature.
Beware on public roads though, it can attract tickets. ;) Fastest 0-100 km/h I recorded so far is 6:19, with still plenty to spare. :D

Awesome car Lars 👍 :cheers:

Very jealous :cool:
Thanks mate! 👍
 
Lovely Lars 👍

Good to see you made the right choice on wheel size... as well as handling better on 18's, the style/design is so much nicer than the 19's.

Enjoy, but don't bend it ;)
 
Awesome Renault is awesome:tup:
Thanks! 👍
Lovely Lars 👍

Good to see you made the right choice on wheel size... as well as handling better on 18's, the style/design is so much nicer than the 19's.

Enjoy, but don't bend it ;)

Again, thanks. :)

Got a quote on the chiptuning deal: custom-made mapping to approximately 290HP/400Nm including dyno testing, tailoring and readouts at the local RenaultSport specialist will come to 600,- euro.

Seriously tempted. :D
 
You know you want it. :P I wish we got these in the US, I'd love to have one. 👍
 
It may have been him...... OMGoodness!!:eek:

Well the fact that there was a black dude in it and him living in Utrecht, me in Amsterdam... I can safely say it wasn't him :lol:
 
That is one insane looking car with mental specs. Very cool.

On a side note my parents are Dutch and my last name is Laas. My nickname at school was Lars.
 
That is one insane looking car with mental specs. Very cool.

On a side note my parents are Dutch and my last name is Laas. My nickname at school was Lars.

Thanks. 👍 Where are your parents from?

Gorgeous car. I just love hot hatches to death.

Thanks. :) I love 'em too, even more so than certain RWD cars.


Anyway, I've made up my mind about the chiptuning: I'm not going to do it. I have been driving this car extensively, and the whole package is so well-balanced, I just don't want to change it. It's the first car I had where I don't want to make a change (and I have had a lot ;)).

Of course, I can still change my mind at a later date. :D
 
I just saw one of these parked down the road from my house. Very cool looking car. Looks much better in person than photos.
 
Your photos are fine. I guess I was just surprised to see one here in NZ. This one was dark grey.

I am usually not a fan of French cars because of the styling but this car looks great.
 
I am surprised too to hear they even sell outside of Europe, must be extremely rare over there. And it handles even better than it looks. :)
 
Awesome car. Looks and sounds like you really enjoy it! :sly: --- Randy
 
I have this car for almost six months now, and in that time I have driven around 12,000 kilometers in it and put in around 1,200 litres of fuel. The car just keeps on impressing me, the handling and amount of grip is simply amazing. 👍

I also experimented with the gadgets a bit more, so I'll keep updating the thread with pictures and information on how I use them. First up is the G-force meter in the Renault Sport Monitor:

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The graph on the left shows current G-force, in all four directions. It's not showing anything in this picture, since I shot it while standing still. However, it also shows the maximum amount of G-force you pulled in the current session, in the form of thin white lines. Lateral G-force is measured from around -1.25G to +1.25G, G-force while braking is measured until approximately -1.75G and G-force while on-throttle is measured up to 0.75G.

The graph on the right shows the history of G-force of the current session. Unsurprisingly, since this was done on a public road, most of the dots are near the center. ;) According to the device, I pulled around 1G while taking a tight right-hander, and 0.75G while going over a roundabout (counter clockwise) and I pulled just under -0.5G while braking and around 0.6G while going full-throttle.

BTW, I have no idea of how accurate the readings on this device actually are. I read that bodyroll and other things influence the accuracy, but anyone have any insight as to how accurate these things are? Is it something in the order of -5%/+5% or -50%/+50%? :)
 
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Without knowing how it measures and where the sensors are, can't say.

It's entirely possible to hit spikes of near 1g on the street on really good high performance tires... but those could be very momentary spikes (on the order of less than a tenth of a second... would be nice to have an adjustment on G-meters that allows you to discard spikes of less than a certain amount of time (say, less than 5/100ths of a second), but I don't know any (cheap) meters that do that.
 
Stock tires are the Michelin PilotSports (regular ones, not 2 or 3). When they are up for replacement, I'm replacing them with Bridgestone Potenza RE050A tires. The PS/2/3 tires are very good on dry surface, but suck at wet. And we have a lot of wet here. ;)

As for the G-meter, I hardly think it's extremely advanced, considering it cost 200 euro (and that includes all the other features like monitoring, lap timing, acceleration timing etc.)

On another note: I'm looking for some sporty winter tires of the size 225/40/R18 or 235/40/R18. Looking for excellent/good performance on wet and good/decent performance on snow. Anybody have any suggestions/experiences they wish to share?
 
Car got its first scheduled maintenance today (20,000 km). As expected, no irregularities. Tyres were down to 4.1 mm for the fronts and 5.0 mm for the rears, which is more than I was expecting. Looks like I'll be able to drive them a bit longer. :D I think I'll be replacing them at 25-26k.
 
Besides my beasty hot hatch, having a family with two kids means I also need more 'common' transportation. Mrs. Arosa used to be driving a 2008 Mugen CR-V, but she was looking for something newer and preferrably cheaper to drive/maintain.

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When the new Mazda CX-5 came available in The Netherlands, the Mrs. took a test drive and was sold immediately, so we decided to trade in the CR-V for a brand new Mazda CX-5 TS+. :)

Besides all the regular goodies that come with the TS+, she also added the styling pack option (front and rear plates, LED DRL, additional trunk lighting), black leather upholstery with white stitching and there was also an offer from the dealer that included free navigation.

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So far, I really love it (even though it's technically not mine :D)! It's lighter, handles better and is cheaper in both gasoline, maintenance and taxes. Very nice car, looking forward to making many kilometers in it with the family. 👍
 
This board is coming up fives!

I've seen it... the back seat actually looks a bit better than the CX7, which is cool, considering it's smaller and lighter.
 
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