![]() ![]() Mazda CX-5 2.2D AWD Sport Nav 2017 first drive.Mazda CX-5 2.0 Skyactiv-G Sport 2WD 2020 UK first drive.Mazda CX-5 2.5 AWD GT Sport 2021 UK first drive.Mazda CX-5 2.5 AWD GT Sport 2022 UK first drive. ![]() There’s no expensive new platform to eat up the lion’s share of that development budget, either: the car sits on an updated version of its predecessor’s mechanical underpinnings, although an extensive model replacement programme has – according to Mazda – altered the car’s dimensions and exterior styling, made it more rigid, improved its steering, suspension and braking systems and given it a completely new interior. Such popularity could be significant for this replacement, since a stronger established business case will likely have markedly increased the money and resource Mazda was willing to sink into this car than might have been invested otherwise. The CX-5 now accounts for 25 percent of Mazda’s global sales volume. The first CX-5 got in fairly early on the current craze for SUVs and of which a remarkable 1.5 million units were built and sold around the world over a six-year lifespan. Predictably, there’s less of a gleam of radical newness to this car than there was to its predecessor, as Mazda inevitably enters a period of consolidation and refinement.īut there’s now a weight of expectation on the CX-5’s shoulders created by the success of the car that it’s replacing.
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