Mazda CX-5

Among the 180 Mazda entries in the MotorJury library, the Mazda CX-5 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2012. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Mazda CX-5 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Peugeot Peugeot 208, the Tesla Tesla Model X, the Lamborghini Lamborghini Aventador — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mazda CX-5 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 2.0 L Skyactiv#2.0 L / Skyactiv-G PE-VPS Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.5 L Skyactiv#2.5 L / Skyactiv-G PY-VPS I4 / Diesel engine / Diesel: / 2.2 L Skyacti; kerb weight is recorded at 1455 -; drive goes through 6-speed Skyactiv#Skyactiv-MT / Skyactiv-MT Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Skyactiv#Skyactiv-Drive / Skyactiv-Drive Automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Mazda story

Within Mazda's own catalogue the Mazda CX-5 sits alongside the Mazda BT-50, the Mazda T2000, the Efini MS-8, the Mazda 121. The record names the Mazda Tribute / Mazda CX-7 as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Norihito Iwao (exterior: 2009) / Masashi Nakayama (2009, 2010). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Hiroshima (Ujina Plant No. 1, Ujina Plant No. 2) / China: Nanjing (Changan Mazda) / Malaysia: Kulim (Inokom) / Russia: Vladivostok (Mazda Sollers) / Vietnam: Quảng.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Mazda CX-5 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.