First look at new Mazda CX-5? Hybrid likely for Hiroshima’s Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Tucson and Nissan X-Trail rival

The principle image of the contemporary, third-generation Mazda CX-5 has surfaced on-line, with a leaked image performing on @Car Style Records on Instagram and Spanish car forum Cochespias.

Even higher, this contemporary model of Mazda’s most attention-grabbing-seller would perhaps be launched in Australia in as exiguous as six months with a house-grown hybrid machine to self-discipline the Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Tucson, Nissan X-Path and additional.

The image clearly reveals a Mazda CX-5 — the volume plate supplies that away — which carefully resembles past camouflaged look for photos as properly as speculative renders.

The contemporary CX-5 surely takes styling inspiration from its top class sister car, the Mazda CX-60, which no longer too long within the past obtained a third wave of updates for the Australian market. Each vehicles exhaust Mazda’s ‘Kodo’ intention language.

The international label of the contemporary CX-5 is expected in Q3 2025, per Mazda South Africa managing director Craig Roberts, with an Australian open scheduled between leisurely 2025 and early 2026.

Headlining the open would perhaps be a recent in-house designed hybrid machine, confirmed by Mazda and expected to address the upcoming Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and unique mannequin Hyundai Tuscon Hybrid.

Final year in 2024, no topic being seven years primitive, Mazda shifted 22,835 CX-5s. It within the mean time begins at $36,740 (listing attach), and has repeatedly been Mazda’s most attention-grabbing selling mannequin in Australia, as properly as Mazda’s preferred car globally.

Read extra about Mazda’s upcoming CX-5 and highly anticipated hybrid machine right here: All the pieces We Know About the 2026 Mazda CX-5 Hybrid