Mazda will launch its crossover offensive by unveiling a brand new mannequin referred to as CX-50 on November 15, 2021. One in all 5 upcoming additions to the agency’s vary of soft-roaders, the CX-50 is scheduled to make its public debut on the 2021 version of the Los Angeles Auto Show.
The video that Mazda posted on its numerous social media channels deliberately reveals little or no concerning the CX-50; it would not even affirm what we’re taking a look at. As an alternative, it provides viewers an excellent have a look at the plants that thrives in a humid forest — there may be moss, fern, and a waterfall that briefly brings the backdrop to life. Squint, and you will see the define of the crossover hauling a kayak by way of the timber. All we are able to actually inform is that it wears comparatively rounded traces; this isn’t a boxy, burly off-roader within the vein of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class.
There’s at all times a brand new terrain. The journey begins 11/15. pic.twitter.com/HgmvMVHNsp
— Mazda USA (@MazdaUSA)
November 8, 2021
Earlier experiences present crunchier morsels of details about the subsequent addition to the Mazda line-up. As we previously wrote, the CX-50 will share its primary platform with the Mazda3 and the CX-30, that means it is going to be front-wheel-drive however very probably obtainable with all-wheel-drive, and it must be supplied with a spread of four-cylinder engines. Earlier experiences claimed that the CX-50 would inaugurate a rear-wheel-drive platform and a long-awaited straight-six engine, nevertheless it now appears to be like like one of many larger fashions (such because the CX-70) will get the glory.
In-built Huntsville, Alabama, the 2022 Mazda CX-50 will make its international debut on-line on November 15. We’ll then see it within the metallic for the primary time in Los Angeles on November 17, and it ought to attain showrooms throughout the nation in early 2022. Apparently, the CX-50 is not going to change the recently-updated CX-5 despite its title. It will likely be positioned as a extra upscale people-mover that displays Mazda’s upmarket ambitions, however the CX-5 will reportedly stick round for an undetermined period of time as an older, extra primary, and cheaper providing.
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