MINAGI CONCEPT BECOMES MAZDA CX-5
In January, Mazda arise the Minagi concept, a examination of the automaker’s latest bunched SUV. Yesterday, Mazda arise that the Minagi will hit the bazaar in 2012 as the Mazda CX-5.
This crossover’s name ability assume familiar. That’s because the CX-5 will accompany Mazda’s two beyond crossovers, the CX-7 and the CX-9. Of the three, the “CX-5 will be the bunched archetypal in the series,” Mazda states in a columnist release. As of yet, the automaker hasn’t said abundant abroad about the CX-5’s engine blueprint or features, and alone addendum that the CX-5 reflects “Mazda’s new architecture theme, ‘KODO – Soul of Motion’ as debuted on the Mazda SHINARI abstraction car, as able-bodied as the abounding ambit of advance SKYACTIV technologies, including engines, transmissions, physique and chassis.”
The automotive industry has started advice Mazda’s ambiguous columnist release. Kicking Tires writes, “Mazda’s next-generation fuel-efficient powertrains” could advance to “15% improvements in achievement and ammunition efficiency.” According to the New York Times, ammunition abridgement assets could accomplish up for the automaker’s abridgement of a amalgam powertrain.
As for pricing, Mazda hasn’t arise any figures, but Inside Line speculates that this bunched crossover won’t amount added than $20,000. That slots the CX-5 just beneath its beyond sibling, the CX-7, which starts at $21,990.
The Mazda CX-5 makes its official admission at the Frankfurt Auto Appearance this September.
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