According to Altaic blog livedoor, Mazda are sounding to introduce a 7 seater variant of the public CX-5 to the local market with supranational exports to follow.
But doesn’t the CX-9 already satisfy that requirement? Well yes and no, internationally the CX-9 is a big hit but inside Japan the vehicle of choice is the fill mover, of which Mazda suffer three models. Sales of fill movers in Japan have remained becalm while their SUV line up has adult both locally and internationally suggestion a re-allocation of resources away from fill movers and towards SUV’s. The Mazda MPV general public mover has already ceased creation late last year and the left over Biante and Premacy models are anticipated to receive the same treatment pile the line.
The two most viable alternative for a 7 seater CX-5 are to either add collapsible children’s settle to the rear of the current model or re-technologist the chassis into a longer magnitude to accommodate the extra seating.
A 7-bottom Mazda CX-5 will provide an different to the 7-seat Nissan X-Trail and approaching 7-seat Volkswagen Tiguan. Aforementioned to be available prior to the end of 2017, it’s anticipated that the 7 seater CX-5 will turn up with the familiar SkyActive-G 2.0 and 2.5 litre petrol engines and 2.2 litre diesel engine.
