Mazda introduced that the manufacturing of the CX-8 will finish in late December 2023. The three-row mid-size SUV that’s bought in Japan, China, Oceania, and Southeast Asia, will probably be changed by the all-new and electrified Mazda CX-80 that’s set to debut subsequent yr.
The corporate mentioned that orders and gross sales of the soon-to-be-discontinued Mazda CX-8 will proceed all through 2024 till the remaining inventory runs out.
The Mazda CX-8 was launched in 2017, as an extended model of the CX-5 with a three-row seating format. It shared the identical structure with the smaller CX-5 and the bigger CX-9. Relying available on the market, the SUV was out there in 6-seater and 7-seater configurations, in FWD and AWD configurations, and with petrol and diesel powertrain choices.
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The CX-8 lineup didn’t embody electrified choices, one thing that may definitely change with its successor – the Mazda CX-80. Extra particularly, the corporate has revealed that the CX-80 will probably be out there with a plug-in hybrid powertrain based mostly on a four-cylinder petrol engine, alongside 48-Volt mild-hybrid variations of the straight-six Skyactiv-X (petrol), and Skyactive-D (diesel) engines.
The Mazda CX-80 was confirmed practically two years in the past as a member of the automaker’s rising SUV lineup based mostly on the brand new “Giant Structure” underpinnings. Briefly, the “narrow-body” CX-60 and CX-80 are designed for markets like Europe and Japan, whereas the CX-70 and CX-90 are centered on the wants of North American clients.
