There is only one thing to take into account here, and that is sample size. We wont know until may's sales data comes out, but the point being is that a 1-3% problem rate on a brand new platform is good by industry standards. For these problems that are coming up that make the cars un-usable, its disheartening for sure.
The first thing I would be doing if this happened to me would be how am I going to be compensated long term for the inconvenience. You could easily negotiate them extending the B2B warranty to 10 yr 100k miles and add a maintenance package, or you could have Mazda buy it back from you including inconvenience fees (this will be a harder fight for "inconvenience" sake). In the end if the car ends up being a lemon, they will have to buy it back. But you will catch more flies with honey, so try to get a free extended warranty and free maintenance package out of the inconvenience first. The dealer/mfgr cannot legally make you waive your lemon car rights in order to gain such compensation, although they may try. This also tends to make getting the car lemoned easier, as you have already shown good faith if/when lawyers need to get involved.
I 100% agree though that if any potential buyers aren't comfortable with being the first on a new platform, by all means wait to buy. I was willing to take the risk because the platform checked all the boxes for me at a price that can't be beat. One factor that influenced my decision is understanding from the automotive enthusiast perspective, I wanted to support companies trying to keep the ICE alive and take chances to continue to develop it.
The first thing I would be doing if this happened to me would be how am I going to be compensated long term for the inconvenience. You could easily negotiate them extending the B2B warranty to 10 yr 100k miles and add a maintenance package, or you could have Mazda buy it back from you including inconvenience fees (this will be a harder fight for "inconvenience" sake). In the end if the car ends up being a lemon, they will have to buy it back. But you will catch more flies with honey, so try to get a free extended warranty and free maintenance package out of the inconvenience first. The dealer/mfgr cannot legally make you waive your lemon car rights in order to gain such compensation, although they may try. This also tends to make getting the car lemoned easier, as you have already shown good faith if/when lawyers need to get involved.
I 100% agree though that if any potential buyers aren't comfortable with being the first on a new platform, by all means wait to buy. I was willing to take the risk because the platform checked all the boxes for me at a price that can't be beat. One factor that influenced my decision is understanding from the automotive enthusiast perspective, I wanted to support companies trying to keep the ICE alive and take chances to continue to develop it.
