[bc-chris]

my wife got a mazda cx-7 a couple years ago and absolutely loves it

lots of room for crap... errrr... i mean 'stuff' (i can not believe the amount of 'stuff' she has in that vehicle....seriously!!)

it's great for getting our daughter in and out (she's only a year and 5 months old)

i personally am not a fan of this car (but like i said before, it's my wife's vehicle and i rarely have to drive it). i swear this car has it out for me and i have the worst luck when it comes to locking/unlocking it. it's got the little button on the door handle you push to lock/unlock and this car seems to know when it's me hitting the button. it always seems to beep at me for no apparent reason too - i don't know... it just doesn't like me

on the performance side i find it really lags when i 'punch it'. i guess i'm used to the 350 v8 of my truck and when i step on it my truck goes! with the cx-7 i step on the gas (i'm talking pedal to the floor) and i can start counting.... 1-1000, 2-1000, 3-1000, 4....oh... there we go, now the car is going. i swear that lag before the power is going to get me in an accident one day

another thing i don't like about the car are the blind spots - i find there to be a ton of them and they are huge... but again, i'm comparing it to my truck, which is a standard cab/shortbox and it's jacked up 6" and sits on 35" tires, so seeing stuff isn't usually an issue in my truck