wheels

Life & Style | Motoring

Mazda previews all-new CX-5 crossover

Preparing to make its international debut in Frankfurt next month, Mazda's next compact SUV previews its efficient technology and Kodo design

wheels Staff Report
Published: 14:09 August 2, 2011

Image Credit: Supplied picture
Kodo design language focuses on a much more prominent family face, and dynamic streaks across the car's profile. In short, 'Soul of Motion'.

Image 1 of 2: 1 2

As we near September 13 and the start of the Frankfurt motor show, more and more manufacturers are giving us hints as to what will grace their stands.

Mazda is focusing on the all-new compact SUV built around the company’s Skyactiv technology. The CX-5 – shooting straight at the new Range Rover Evoque, Audi Q3, BMW X1, et al – will be go on sale in mid-2021, heading the new wave of Mazda’s Skyactiv production vehicles.

Don’t think of it as a shrunk CX-7, or a Mazda 3 on stilts; it’s all totally new, from the chassis, to the engines and transmission. Plus of course, that wonderful styling influenced by the company’s new design language, Kodo, or ‘Soul of Motion’, which highlights prominent new frontal treatments, with a bolder family face, and much more dynamic profile streaks.

Driving the new CX-5 is an engine line-up including the 2.2-litre diesel and 2.0-litre petrol, with huge compression ratios of 14:1. An automatic gearbox takes care of th rest, for targeted CO2 emissions of less than 120g/km for the diesel, and only slightly more than that for the petrol motor.

More from Motoring

All articles in Motoring

More from Life & Style

Packed with the latest local and global motoring news, first drives, up-market car products, bikes and more

Popular in Life & Style

Life & Style editor's choice

Wild and wacky facials in the UAE

From bird poop to bee sting to lava facials... The trendiest beauty treatments in the UAE
A shoe Carrie Bradshaw can call her own

Sarah Jessica Parker on her new fashion project and how she really did have her Manolos stolen
Calling all stylish UAE men

Tabloid! scours town to track down the most trendy men in the UAE. Could you have been spotted?
Cartoons: Mooch ado about nothing

Dreams and troubles of the average Dubaiite, in candid caricatures
Bothered by your inner critic?

“You're fat, you're ugly, you're pathetic” are words nobody should ever hear

FROM THE NETWORK

Abra through the lens

Taking a nostalgic trip through the Dubai Creek
Gadget guide: Apple iPad Air and more

The best of the latest gadgets, gizmos and geegaws for techies or people on the move
Horoscopes this week

Find out what the stars have in store for you this week
World’s biggest natural loser?

At 412kg Barry Austin was eating himself to death, but now he’s started to lose weight naturally
Prachi Desai: I’m no goody two-shoes

Bollywood star Prachi Desai wants to step out of the shadow of her TV character