Vehicle
Mazda CX-50
The wider, lower-geared alternative to the CX-5, built in Alabama on the small platform the CX-30 and Mazda 3 share rather than on anything of its own. Two things separate it from the rest of the range diagnostically. The turbo 2.5 is the same unit as the CX-9's and wants the same discipline about oil and fuel grade. And the hybrid is not a Mazda system at all — it is Toyota's, from the RAV4, built on the same line — so a hybrid fault here is read with Toyota data and Toyota expectations, not with anything else in this catalogue.
Generations
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First generation 2022–present
Small platform, all-wheel drive throughout; the 2025 hybrid is Toyota's system rather than Mazda's.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Mazda Small Platform
- Engines
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- 2.5 Skyactiv-G — PY-VPS · petrol
- 2.5 Turbo — PY-VPTS · petrol · shared with the CX-9
- 2.5 hybrid — A25D-FXS · hybrid · Toyota system, from 2025
- 2.0 — petrol
- Transmissions
- e-CVT · 6-speed Skyactiv-Drive automatic
- Drivetrain
- Four-wheel drive
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