Bjorn. the paddles behind the wheel are for regeneration. There are 5 options.

Mazda, why did you do this? Please no sound, when driving a electric car! The minimum is, to switch off the sound!

3:11 noooo, that fake sound😂😂😭

Bjorn, turn on the turn signal and look at the bulbs from the outside, they look like a heart beating. Mazda has a division called jinba-ittai or man and horse in one. They tune little things like gas pedal angle, brake feel, steering wheel, angle of the head rest, the little things that make a good car great. That’s why you like it so much because Mazda tunes every little thing so the car drives as naturally as possible.

The fake engine sound is so embarrassing. If this cannot be switched off, that would be a reason for me not to buy this car.

Congratulations Bjørn, you have worked hard lately to achieve 200 000 subscribers.

Congratulations on 200k subscribers! What a journey it has been :o

the fake sound is very annoying to me at least

it's good to remember that "electric cars" remain "cars", and many people buy them for that reason first and not only with electrical device criteria(like a washing machine). You seemed to like ΜΧ-30 as a "car" and this is very usefull for potential buyers. p.s: all your reviews about it were great, keep up the good work.

This angle again, great! Man, sincere congratulations with 200k subscribers!!!

I own mazda CX 30 with the same multimedia system - for me it is much better than touch screen. It is a matter of taste IMO. I hope next revision of the MX 30 with rotary engine will bring at least 400km range.

Congrats for the 200k milestone

Would love to see more types of these videos, also grats on 200k!

Congrats on reaching 200K subs!!!

Love this kind of view. Keep making one video with every car. Best regards

200k, wohooooo! 🥳🎉🎈

"There is no settings for regen" - There is 5 settings for regen Björn! Five! Maybe is god idea for you too read about car or manual before you drive a car. There is altso a new developt "motor pedal" which change pedal resistens depending off those 5 regen mode.

Congrats on 200k subscribers!

I’ve had a few Mazdas and yes they like to keep some wheelspin for driver involvement, which you did seem to be enjoying, so that’s cool.

more of these type of reviews please 👌

Bjorn, you can use Apple CarPlay google, then you find your destination very easily

22:33 That's why we love you Björn, because you keep those things in the videos. I still like the MX30, the range is not that important for us, but the doors are a no-go. Stupid design does not work in the garage. But HUD, LED Matrix, heated steering wheel, some nice features in this.

Bjorn for regen you have 5 levels. You have padels on wheel to set it..

Very Good review. Thanks!

I actually enjoy the fake engine noise; it may enhance the driving experience in the same way some app UIs provide audible clicks and even tactile response when scrolling in lists, for example. But it should be customizable with downloadable sounds: Suzuki Hayabusa, F-16 jetfighter, bigblock V8, 2-stroke moped... 🤪

What is your opinion about the 5 regeneration modes that you can change on the little paddles behind the steering wheel?

Like the looks and interior, but not the engine note, wheel spin tendency, infotainment search method and charging/range performance. Absolutely love Bjorn’s unique review style 👍

Please do more review like this with every car

Fake engine noises in an EV should be illegal ..

200k subscribers :) Happened eventualy :)

for the reku... use the shifting paddels... but the rest is bad... 35kw charging... dropping down early.... waiting for about a 100km you can get 1h or more... that´s why... mine is getting back

The rattle does bite! I heard it this time. Thx, Bjorn.

It would be fun to see a regular-ish feature where you review cars from a "city car" perspective. It would be a mostly like this review. Driving around town and talking about the +/- of the car in the city environment would be a major part. Maybe there could also be a few specific tests like Wh/k used in city driving conditions, tightness of turning circle, ease of parking, acceleration for getting into traffic from a stop or from a highway on-ramp, and overall size vs storage capacity (can it do IKEA?). Anyway, you produce a lot of great videos. Thanks for the information and entertainment!

Hi Bjørn. I like your car tests. Been watching many of your prevoius videos too. I feel that maybe you have misses a few things about this car. Like the regen. Paddles behind steeringwheel with 5 settings. It does not have autosteer. But Lane Assist system. That means that it keeps you from driving over centerline or shoulder on the road. It seem to activate when you get past 60 kph. The rattle sound must be a fluke that it is on your exact demo car. I have this car myself. No rattling anywhere. Neither on the democar at the dealership i have driven. Or from people i know who also own this car. Bad luck that you got the ‘only’ one that does :) Wheelspin is because of the studless Conti tires. I have driven this on summertires and then it has better grip. Also i felt it was a tiny bit more quiet. But this car has very good noise dampening. One of the better one i have driven. I am a car guy and has driven alot of different cars trough the years. So here Mazda have done right on the MX30, and on the more recent models from them. I would like people to take a test drive with this car before judging it online. Because you get a hell of a car for this price. Premium quality sensation when you drive and looking at the build quality in general. About the range i have about 170 km average now in lower temp. It seems to be stable there on mixed driving. Wintertyres are friction tires, and will always make range shorter on EV’s. Or more fuel consumtion on a fossil car. Summertires are better for the range. I believe that range is very close to the WLTP of 200 km in warmer weather and on summertires. If people need a car with more range, ok then dont buy this one. But if you drive up to 150 km per day and can charge at home over night, i dont think you can get a better and low priced EV as Mazda MX30. Just a sidenote from a Norwegian MX30 owner. I will recommend curious people also to visit MX30 owners Facebookgroup. Lot of information there from owners. Congratulations on 200k subs BTW :) Regards Øyvind

Maybe somebody mentionned this elsewhere but I just got some Conti VikingContact 7 on my M3SR+ and they do spin and trigger traction control even on dry asphalt. I believe this is the reason this Mazda spins when flooring it. Might not be just because of the power of this particular car. BTW, I lowered my acceleration to Comfort just so I don't wear out the rubber too quickly...

I really like the analog gauges.

What are the "shift" paddles for behind the steering-wheel?

I am thinking of this car as a second car. Its between Mx30 or CHR

I just had some remote troubleshooting training from Tritium. Your name came up, more than once :)

LOL love this review, thanks

Thought you were going to try out the airbags at the roundabout. That fake engine noise is pretty annoying in my opinion and very unnecessary.

To all you guys who are complaining about the range. I'm not sure how fast Mazda will be able to get their hands on bigger batteries. Obviously every manufacturer is scrambling for them at the moment and it's hard to find them in larger batches if you don't have agreed upon any long-term contracts like VW Group or Tesla.

Thank you bjorn for all you do! Well done! I think this Mazda is good only for norway, in italy cost 37700€ before incentives, way to expensive.

Bjorn, maybe you will do a test with Pawel taking the Mazda MX-30 vs Honda e. There was no test with him for a long time. That would be exciting.

Bjorn. I’m looking forward to you testing the Lexus UX300e. Interesting to see how you get on with its charging configuration 🤔

There is left and rear paddle for the regen

You can use voice commands to navigate quicker, but i dont know if it really understand norwegian city names well....

Can you do dis in pov camera angle please

they should implement a touchscreen keyboard on the AC-Display. and of couse a smaller gear shifter to reach this touchscreen better for typing

This car with a 45-60kwh would be a bestseller even if Mazda increases 50.000-80.000 NOK the final price. Hopefully they reconsider their plan for this car and will offer bigger battery pack besides the rex option.

I have checked the manual and none of the MX30 versions has auto steering, so no wonder you find it does not work. It has lane-keep assist and also warns you if you take your hands of the steering wheel. But that is not the same as auto steering.

Bjorn, Mazda MX-30 does have five driving modes, and single pedal driving, by using shift pedals underneath steering wheel...

I was watching Torque News one day and he was talking about some new EV and I was like Bjorn reviewer that a while back

Did you try to use android auto or carplay? Should solve all your navigation problems

Video seems a bit blurry/out of focus compared to normal? Mazda interior looks lovely. I don’t hate the sound as much as some others. The restrained traction control is a plus in my book!

Hi Bjoern, I prefer my MG ZS EV although the Range is not great and it has Sh**y headlights I find it looks a lot better and it has NO weird sounds lol

Wifey is THE BOSS cutting up your rambling video maybe if you buy her some sushi you're gonna please her.

if you would not have the engine sound, there would be only sounds of bumps and road. The Lexus engineers talked about this car sound philosophy

The easiest way to enter a destination into the navigation system is to just use the Mazda App and send it over to the car :-). The App can also turn on the heater (even on battery only) and lock the doors. Btw. the App has a "Guest Mode" where you can try it out without actually owning the car

there are 5 levels of recuperation recuperation level can be set any time with paddles under the steering wheel car always starts on middle setting and you can increase increase is 2 levels with left paddle or reduce it using right paddle 5th weakest setting means pretty much no recuperation it's very intuitive and very easy to adjust depending on the situation none of that B nonsense

Love this review. Keep it up! Good! Recommended! Yeah👍 Dont wanna be a smartass Mr Nyland but just some added info from a Mazda fanboy. 1 Navigation. Use Apple car play or Android auto instead usb to smartphone. Problem solved. 2 Touch screen. Mazda feels its unsafe during driving. Ok, maybe, the round, solid i Drive like thingy you get used to it. 3 Range, OK. The thing is it really depends on driving style and loads of stuff you already know. Bjørn is having fun. Using the regen paddles helps. Eco driving helps. You can easily eke out more range If you try. 4 E sound. Mazda claims its a safety feature and they are right in my opinion. Almost lost my licence in an eerily silent etron. Gives the driver a sense of speed. Dont get paid by Mazda to post this just really like my MX-30

I thought the paddles on the wheel control regen

You missed the regen Flaps Björn. You can change regen.....

It's funny if it had a larger battery that gets 200 miles - 320 km ish range, I think it would be better car. Or had faster charging, or preferably both.

Very safe car in crashtest 👍

The main design issue with the MX30 are the suicide doors, which only have disadvantages. 1) Although getting in is OK, once in the back you are at the mercy of front passengers who must open their doors first. It makes you feel unsafe in case of accident or when the car gets in the water, not a hypothetical risk in NL. 2) It is also claustrophobic with small space and those very small windows. 3) Due to the huge B style in the suicide door, visibility, looking for cars coming from behind, is very poor. Luckily the car has blind spot monitoring - you need it. Visibility around the car is poor in any case. 4) When you park in a parking garage between two cars, the passengers sitting in the back can impossibly get out - the space between the front and suicide doors is just too narrow. 5) Somebody may accidentally throw the suicide doors on the front doors if the wrong order of door closing is followed. For these reasons the MX30 is a poor choice as a family car. Mazda had better opted for a conventional door layout.

The MX-30 is going to be equipped with a rotary Wankel engine next year as a range extender, as the Rex system of BMW on the i-3! Might be more interesting because the 200 km range is poor!

Next test of the MX 30 trying out the seats folded flat for a good night's sleep.

Fake engine sound, low regen and poor range make this a non option. It’s a pity because it’s a pretty car and the interior is pretty nice. And I’ve always liked Mazda.

Mazda have said they will consider an option to disable the engine noise but at the moment it cannot for "safety reasons." That statement was made almost a year ago so I wouldn't hold my breath of them listening to potential owner feedback and acting on it.

They will probably listen to the customers and enable option to disable the fake engine sound

that fake engine sound says ''this car is for people who wants to be change but can't adapt easly to new things'' cause they love electric cars but they still love the engine sound. i wish they were also added fake ''gear change'' sound then mission completed

Looks like the Honda E finally has a rival when it comes to really good looking, compact, short range, high end EV's. Pretty sure they will sell more of this than the Honda E since people still remember that Mazda exists, unlike Honda, and they actually advertise it, unlike Honda...

for 280k nok i would rather get e-208 or corsa-e, longer range and faster charging.

Please test the new Lexus UX300e

I3 and MX-30 is born hybrid. Not pure blooded EV indeed.

'Born Rex' - if that is true and Mazda actually put a Rex into the car, then I would buy it (I really liked my Mazda's). BMW i3 REx was the best compromise for carrying around unnecessary (for 99% of the time) batteries, and yet giving great comfort that you can go anywhere at any time. However, as it is - there appears to be way too may compromises with this Mazda (and the very annoying engine noise).

Bjorn, please, tell us if you finally slept on the sofa... 💤 🛋

I would not be surprised if this car has very poor winter acceleration due to wheel spin.

While listening to music does the fake engine sound still on? That would be a crime!

Like the eTron this is a pure compliance car. You habe to deal with it! (for eg dont buy it! xD)

The Mazda is like the e2008, but i think the Peugeot is the better choice!

That fake engine noise... kill me! 🤦🏽‍♂️

What does Bjørn mean when he says an electric car colgates/coldgates? lol

Whereas I find Mazda rather disrespectful in not giving car owners the choice in whether they want to hear an artificial sound or not, we should not exaggerate it now. I have driven 1500 km in the MX30 now, and I do not notice the sound much. Bjorn found the car to make 64 db in noise, quiet therefore, so the artificial sound is apparently not that deafening. But it might be quieter still without that artificial sound.

Hhmm its a shame really! if Mazda put a 45kwh pack in the car it would probably sell really well.

I hate that fake engine sound

that fake engine sound is just ridiculous

The first range and charging review make all the rest of the reviews moot.

dont know why electric adjustable seats are one of the main positives... who cares? you set the seat once and thats it...no big deal if its manual

I love Mazda but this is so sad

Fake engine sound really is a turn-off with this car. I have to assume the designers has a wife that also fake sound ?

I'm shocked that after years of marketing their cars to have un-distracting interiors, with physical infotainment and climate controls, they would then put the climate controls on a hard to see screen while keeping the infotainment wheel. It makes zero sense.

Fake engine sound CAN be turned off!

Not that we like Japanese cars. We just have no choice when it comes to affordable non-Japanese cars!

Fake broom broom noises, WTF are they smoking at Mazda

I hope your wife wasn't too angry with you... or your sofa is quite comfortable!!

18:00 “you can put at least 2 or 3 illegal immigrants under the hood” 🤣🤣🤣

ok - it doesn't understand.... ha ha ha....

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