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Sitting just $500 below the top-spec two thousand seventeen Mazda CX-5 Grand Touring is a fresh Grand Select trim.

Mazda spokesperson Jacob Brown tells CarsDirect, which spotted the addition, that the two thousand seventeen CX-5 Grand Select is an attempt by Mazda USA to examine consumer tastes.

Grand Select, Brown says, “will be suggested for a limited time and will test the waters for customer options preferences in the marketplace.”

Like the CX-5 Grand Touring, the $29,835 Grand Select is a very well-equipped, premium-aping compact crossover. Unlike the CX-5 Grand Touring, the Grand Select lacks forward collision warning, adaptive cruise, auto high slats, lane departure warning, and lane keeping assist. A few years down the increasingly autonomous road, those are the kinds of features that might be a real boon to resale.

Mazda Makes a Bet on Popularity of Upcoming CX-5 Diesel

Diesel power has traditionally proved a raunchy sell in the United States, at least among light-vehicle buyers. If it doesn’t belong on a worksite, chances are a vehicle’s engine choices have remained gasoline-only since the model’s debut.

While the high-mileage technology suffered a black, sooty eye from the Volkswagen affair, several automakers are gambling on Americans want of higher torque figures and improved fuel economy — the rosy promises of diesel motivation. Mazda, the only automaker without a hybrid or electrified vehicle in its stable, plans to add a diesel CX-5 to its gas-only U.S. fleet later this year.

The automaker knows exactly how many it wants Americans to buy. If this litmus test on wheels reaches the pre-determined mark, expect to see more zoom-zoom diesels appearing in local showrooms. (Read More…)

2017 Mazda CX-5 Very first Drive Review – Less is More

Mazda wants you to know its two thousand seventeen CX-5 is more than just another compact crossover. Not in terms of size, power, or price, but in its transcendent practice. Media introductions are often an exploration into the esoterica of automotive design, and this launch is no different — except for a refreshing dose of substance sprinkled over a focused, if understated, redesign.

Compact crossovers recently eclipsed full-size trucks as the largest automotive segment. And right on cue, CX-5 is Mazda’s best-selling vehicle, accounting for thirty eight percent of its U.S. sales last year. Not only that, but it was Mazda’s fastest nameplate to earn one million sales worldwide. It’s thus no shock that as significant as this little ute has become to Mazda, its very first generation lasted just five years. Nor is it a surprise that its well received very first generation is followed by an evolutionary and not a revolutionary 2nd gen, with a diesel on the way to further extend its reach.

If it ain’t broke, tweak it.

Another Manual Transmission Bites The Dust, Mazda Kills Popular CX-5’s Unpopular DIY Shifter

Mazda, heretofore an avid provider of manual transmissions, is killing off the manual transmission in the brand’s most popular product, the CX-5.

CarsDirect’s pricing analysts informed TTAC of the CX-5’s exclusively two-pedal future, having received confirmation from Mazda.

Few consumers were taking Mazda up on the company’s suggest of an entry-level CX-5 with a manual transmission, so while the CX-5’s advertised base price shoots up by $Two,290 with the loss of the standard shift, the typical transaction price for the typical CX-5 buyer won’t switch.

CarsDirect says the CX-5’s manual transmission will proceed to be suggested north and south of the border. But for American consumers in search of a manual shift crossover, where are they to turn? (Read More…)

2017 Mazda CX-5 Diesel Confirmed – three hundred ten Lb-ft of Torque in an Equinox Fighter Not Named TDI

Chevrolet won’t be the only automaker attempting to woo former Volkswagen TDI owners with a diesel-powered compact crossover. Mazda North America confirmed this afternoon the soon-coming availability of a Two.2-liter turbocharged diesel four-cylinder in the accurately refreshed two thousand seventeen Mazda CX-5.

Thought to be a sure bet before major setbacks seemed to become insurmountable impediments, we reported earlier this week that the expose of a fresh CX-5 would include a diesel engine. Then, in press releases from both Mazda USA and Mazda Canada last night, the Two.2-liter Skyactiv-D was included in the list of otherwise carryover powertrains suggested.

Today, at a press conference not twenty four hours after a design-oriented expose of the two thousand seventeen CX-5, Mazda made it clear. Consider it confirmed, validated, and verified. Mazda’s best-selling model is about to build up sixty eight percent more torque. (Read More…)

2017 Mazda CX-5 Exposed In Los Angeles – It’s Been A Good Five Years

Almost five years after the very first Mazda CX-5 became an instantaneous success for Mazda North America, the automaker has revamped its best seller. Exposed on the eve of the two thousand sixteen Los Angeles Auto Showcase, the two thousand seventeen Mazda CX-5 should have little trouble capitalizing on the momentum created by the oft-praised crossover.

In thirty six of the last forty five months, year-over-year CX-5 volume has enlargened, a striking achievement given the Mazda brand’s fights to earn mainstream market share in the United States. Mazda brand sales are down eight percent in the U.S. this year.

But the CX-5 is another story; the bright light at a brand where the midsize car is overlooked, the fattest and smallest crossovers are niche products, the compact is swift fading, the subcompact and minivan have both been extinguished, and the most famous product is the brand’s least common product.

Tonight’s two thousand seventeen Mazda CX-5 expose is hugely significant to Mazda, as almost four-in-ten sales in Mazda’s U.S. showrooms are generated by the brand’s remarkably joy to drive CR-V fighter. (Read More…)

Mazda CX-5 Diesel to Emerge in U.S. Next Year: Report

Mazda is remaining tight-lipped, but a fresh report claims the automaker will debut a diesel-powered CX-5 crossover in the U.S. next year, followed by a oil-burning Mazda 6.

If true, it means Mazda’s years-long effort to bring its overseas powerplants to North America were not in vain. (Read More…)

Mazda Flashes Us a Little Gam With Its Redesigned two thousand seventeen CX-5

Everyone assumed that the next incarnation of the Mazda CX-5 wouldn’t make an appearance until next year, so it was a bit of a surprise to see Mazda demonstrating off cautiously lit photos of its next-generation compact crossover today.

It’s certainly not an unwelcome surprise, as this two thousand seventeen model has one hell of a good-looking profile.

Even Mazda Is Now Selling More Crossovers Than Cars, But Overall Mazda Sales Are Still Down

Over the last two months, Mazda, that good lil’ bastion of four-cylinder engines and SkyActiv and adding lightness, has sold more crossovers than cars in the United States.

Yes, that Mazda. The Mazda that had to rebadge Fords to bring its very first two SUVs to market. The Mazda that, only four years ago, produced two-thirds of its U.S. sales with passenger cars.

Unluckily, the gains now produced by Mazda’s CX crossover division aren’t enough to counteract the plunging sales of Mazda’s three remaining cars. As a result, Mazda’s U.S. market share is down to just 1.7 percent through 2016’s very first eight months.

The good news for Mazda? Company bosses witnessed this coming. As part of a long-term strategy, Mazda is sticking to its guns, unwilling to overreact to disappointing short-term results with short-term fixes. (Read More…)

Why Aren’t Americans Buying Mazdas?

Through the first-quarter of 2016, U.S. auto sales volume grew three percent compared with the same period in record-setting 2015.

Mazda’s U.S. sales have fallen seventeen percent, a meaningful decline of 13,399 sales over the course of only three months.

Something isn’t clicking for Mazda. (Read More…)

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