Select the Grand Touring edition and your price comes in at $27,970. All other models, including the Sport with a 6-speed automatic transmission (also priced from $21,545) are powered by a 2.5-liter, four-cylinder engine making 184 horsepower and 185 foot-pounds of torque.Ĭhoose the Mazda CX-5 Sport and you’ll pay from $24,965. It is paired with a 6-speed manual transmission and is also the only one powered by the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine making 155 horsepower and 150 foot-pounds of torque. The base Sport front-wheel-drive model is the budget leader, coming in at $21,545. Mazda offers the CX-5 in Sport, Touring, and Grand Touring editions. Calling it the CX-5 allows Mazda to someday slip a new model between the CX-5 and CX-9, but that may not be necessary. The CX-5 is sized between the two retired models, but offers a better layout and more interior room than the larger CX-7. Introduced in 2013, the Mazda CX-5 replaced the slightly larger CX-7, filling the gap created by the Tribute’s cancellation two years earlier. I’ll try to do my best here to present a more balanced and comprehensive look at the middle product in Mazda’s three crossover utility vehicle range. Routinely, manufacturers send out the best of the best for media inspection, what tends to skew journalist objectivity. My weekly sample of Mazda CX-5 driving came in the form of a Grand Touring AWD edition, the top-of-the-line model in this SUV line. But this manufacturer found a way to apply the same design energy to the vehicle’s frame and has successfully delivered one of the more admirable products in its segment. The Mazda CX-5 advances the brand’s flowing KODO or soul of motion design on an SUV frame, not an easy task considering that such body styles typically aren’t especially handsome. That model is the Mazda CX-5, now one of three SUVs sold by this niche Japanese brand.
Still, the automaker had lacked a strong competitor to go up against the likes of the Honda CR-V, Ford Escape, and the Toyota RAV4, and a new model was in order. Mazda has had much success with its small utility vehicles, selling the Tribute from 2001 to 2011 and the CX-7 from 2007 to 2012.
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