Mazda CX-50

The Mazda CX-50 is one of 180 Mazda models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2022. 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-50 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. 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 Nissan Nissan Z, the Kia Kia EV6, the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mazda CX-50 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Gasoline: / 2.0 L Skyactiv#2.0_L / Skyactiv-G PE-VPS I4 (China) / 2.5 L Skyactiv#2.5 L / Skyactiv-G PY-VPS Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.5 L Skyactiv; quoted output is PE-VPS: 153 hp / PY-VPS: 187 hp / PY-VPTS: 227 – / HEV: 176 hp; kerb weight is recorded at 3706 –; drive goes through 6-speed Skyactiv#Skyactiv-Drive / Skyactiv-Drive Automatic transmission / automatic / Transmission (mechanics)#Electric variable / eCVT (HEV); the layout is Front-engine, all-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 41 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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-50 sits alongside the Mazda BT-50, the Mazda T2000, the Efini MS-8, the Mazda 121. The record names the successor = as its predecessor and the sp = us as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Eiji Kimoto, Takeshi Shinohara, Kouhei Kawakami, Young-Joon Suh, Ryousuke Nozaki, Yutaka Sukegawa, Heitetsu Takemoto, and Yasuyuki Murata. Assembly is recorded at United States: Huntsville, Alabama (Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA / MTMUS) / China: Nanjing (Changan Mazda).

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

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Mazda CX-50 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.