The Mazda CX-50 is the Mazda that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 153 hp from Petrol engine. It was built from 2022, in the decade the industry is turning electric. Eiji Kimoto, Takeshi Shinohara, Kouhei Kawakami, Young-Joon Suh, Ryousuke Nozaki, Yutaka Sukegawa, Heitetsu Takemoto, and Yasuyuki Murata drew it.
How it came about
The Mazda CX-50 is a compact crossover SUV produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Mazda since 2022 for the 2023 model year, for the North American and Chinese markets. Based on the same transverse, front-wheel-drive platform as the fourth-generation Mazda3 and the CX-30, the vehicle is sold alongside the slightly smaller CX-5 and is positioned below the larger, rear-wheel-drive based CX-70.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; 153 hp is the published figure; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 3706 –. Work it out per tonne and you get about 41 horsepower — leisurely, which for a car of its age and purpose is the point. It shifts through a 6-speed Skyactiv#Skyactiv-Drive / Skyactiv-Drive Automatic transmission / automatic / Transmission (mechanics)#Electric variable / eCVT (HEV). The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 110.8 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Huntsville, Alabama (Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Kia EV6, the Toyota bZ4X, the Geely Radar RD6 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Mazda stablemates include the Mazda BT-50 and the Mazda T2000.
What it costs now
The money question first: $22,900–$38,900 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $2,942–$4,049 a year. Insurance sits around $1,530–$2,250 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.
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