Mazda CX-8 axed in Australia, CX-80 to step up as replacement 

Mazda Australia has as of late presented that this can axe the contemporary-generation of CX-8 wide SUV, with the model to be removed from showrooms from around April 2024.

Initially arriving in 2018, the CX-8 SUV has sold practically 25,000 objects thus far, in line with figures equipped by Mazda.

The Jap automaker has said that this can now focus powerful extra on electrification of its objects within the shut to future, but appears to be like to be predicament on hybrid energy, no longer less than for now.

Mazda states that by 2030, no longer less than 25 p.c of the toll road-up will doubtless be pure-electrical autos, which places the emblem some ability within the motivate of varied key automakers.

In 2023 by myself, the CX-8 had sold 3846 objects up to the cease of September, which changed into once a little of down on the identical interval in 2022, the put the model sold 4477 objects.

As a 3-row SUV with the option of six- or seven-seats, CX-8 competed with the likes of the Hyundai Santa Fe, the Toyota Kluger and the Kia Sorento.

CX-80 change liable to be extra costly

Mazda Australia informed Chasing Autos in October 2021 that the CX-8 would remain in Australia for a foreseeable future amid hypothesis that the introduction of a extra top class CX-80 would gaze the payment-focused CX-8 discontinued.

“The CX-5 and CX-8 will proceed to live alongside whichever of that product [CX-60, plus CX-70, CX-80 and CX-90] we bring, within the identical ability as the CX-30 and CX-3 live alongside every other happily but cater to very varied audiences,” they said.

As a extra top class product, the CX-80 is liable to raise the next label than the CX-8, as viewed when the CX-9 changed into once these days replaced with the CX-90, seeing a roughly $20,000 soar within the price of entry.

Mazda has also as of late presented this is in a position to maybe maybe be axing its small SUV, the MX-30, on the identical time as the CX-8. The MX-30 sold in small numbers within the neighborhood, with honest 2200 objects sold in its history on sale in Australia.

What to appear forward to from the unusual Mazda CX-80

The Mazda CX-8 will doubtless be within the ruin replaced by the marginally bigger and extra top class CX-80, that will just be part of the these days launched Mazda CX-60 and CX-90 SUVs. Every of these objects ride on Mazda’s wide product architecture.

Mazda Australia confirmed in a insist that “as we demand to the future, our model vary will reach once extra with a line-up of superior powertrains and products for our market – including basically the most important-ever Mazda CX-80 – and we demand forward to sharing extra small print next 365 days.”

The extra top class Mazda CX-80 is determined to feature Mazda’s unusual straight-six and silent-hybrid petrol and diesel engines.