The CX-5 is Mazda’s hottest automobile, promoting 365,135 items final 12 months. Even with that quantity, it was rumored to be residing on borrowed time because of the launch of a number of newer fashions. However now it seems just like the CX-5 will get a reprieve within the type of a brand new, third technology.
In keeping with Drive, the official launch date has but to be finalized, however Mazda confirmed a brand new model of the CX-5 could be in showrooms together with the CX-50 and bigger CX-90 SUVs. The brand new CX-5 will possible make the most of a configuration just like at this time’s mannequin, together with a four-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive, and optionally available all-wheel drive.
It is also extremely possible the brand new Mazda CX-5 will characteristic a hybrid powertrain, just like the one within the Toyota RAV4 or Corolla Cross. Toyota owns a 5 p.c stake in Mazda, and the 2 corporations have collaborated on a number of automobiles, together with a Japan-market-only Mazda 3 hybrid. Within the US, each the Toyota Corolla Cross and Mazda CX-50 are assembled on the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama.
Beforehand, Mazda introduced plans to provide three electrical automobiles, 5 plug-in hybrids, and 5 typical hybrids by 2025. Nonetheless, it has not indicated which fashions would supply variations of these powertrains. There are additionally rumors of a number of rotary-powered hybrids. Mazda has hinted that it would supply a rotary engine hybrid model CX-30 within the US and has filed patents for a sportscar utilizing a rotary PHEV.
Not like previous rotary-engined vehicles, the inner combustion engine won’t energy the CX-30’s wheels. As a substitute, it can generate electrical energy to recharge a 17.8 kWh battery, which gives an electric-only vary of as much as 53 miles. Jeff Guyton, Mazda’s North American CEO, mentioned the automaker has not dominated out the return of the rotary to the US market however is at present prioritizing the CX-30’s launch in Europe and Japan.
As a substitute, the US market will get the CX-90, a three-row SUV, a vastly widespread automobile in North America. It is going to be joined later this 12 months by the CX-70, a two-row model of the CX-90, giving Mazda a whole lineup of SUVs, together with the CX-5, for the foreseeable future.
