Inovev forecasts 200,000 new Mazda CX30 SUVs per year
- At the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, the Japanese automaker Mazda unveiled a new C-segment SUV that will fit between the CX3 and CX5. It is called the CX30 because there is already a CX4 on the Chinese market that has a completely different body.
- The CX30 is based on the platform of the recent Mazda 3 sedan, with which it could compete. The new model responds to the strong worldwide demand for C-segment SUVs.
- The CX30 will compete with general-purpose SUVs such as the Nissan Qashqai, Renault Kadjar, Peugeot 3008, Citroën C5 Aircross, Opel Grandland, Ford Kuga and Jeep Compass.
- Mazda SUVs already represent half of the manufacturer's sales in 2018 (more than the world average) and it is very likely that the launch of the CX30 will further increase the share of SUVs in Mazda's sales.
- Its length of 4.39 m places it halfway between the CX3 that appeared four years earlier (4.28 m) and the CX5 that was renewed last year (4.55 m). By way of comparison, a Nissan Qashqai is 4.37m long and a Peugeot 3008 4.45m long.
- Logically, the Mazda3's engines should be found under the hood of the CX30, i.e. the 122 hp 2.0 SkyActiv-G 4-cylinder petrol engine and the 116 hp 1.8 SkyActiv-D 4-cylinder diesel engine, but probably not the 175 hp 2.2 engine of the CX5.
- Inovev expects 200,000 sales per year of the Mazda CX30, which will be manufactured in Japan at the Hofu site.
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