The 2025 Mazda CX-70 midsize crossover SUV slots into the premium section with a worth starting from $41,820 to $58,825, Mazda introduced Wednesday.
The brand new Mazda CX-70 fills a spot deserted by the CX-7 midsize crossover greater than a decade in the past, and arrives at a time when automakers supply a number of crossovers throughout their portfolios. The CX-70 sizes up with the Honda Passport and Chevy Blazer, however aspires to be in a category above with rivals such because the Volvo XC60 and Lincoln Nautilus.
Mazda’s latest car shares a rear-wheel-drive platform and almost each dimension with the CX-90 three-row crossover SUV, however the CX-70 seats 5.
Just like the CX-90, the CX-70 has three electrified powertrain choices, designated by Turbo, Turbo S, and PHEV grades. Trim ranges embody the bottom Most well-liked, the mid-grade Premium, and the highest Premium Plus. All fashions use an 8-speed automated transmission and all-wheel drive is normal.
The bottom Turbo mannequin has a turbocharged 3.3-liter inline-6 supplemented by a 48-volt mild-hybrid system. Complete system output is 280 hp and 332 lb-ft of torque. It has an EPA score of 24 mpg metropolis, 28 freeway, 25 mixed, which is above common effectivity for this class. It is the one engine choice to come back with the bottom Most well-liked trim, however it will likely be provided final, anticipated for this fall.
The 2025 Mazda CX-70 3.3 Turbo Most well-liked prices $41,820, together with a compulsory $1,375 vacation spot price. Normal options embody automated emergency braking, blind-spot displays, lively lane management, adaptive cruise management, automated excessive beams, and a rear-seat reminder.
Even the bottom Most well-liked has leather-based upholstery and a 12.3-inch infotainment display with contact features when built-in with wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. There’s additionally wi-fi smartphone charging, keyless entry, energy entrance seats which might be heated, and different fashionable touches. It rolls on 19-inch wheels.
The three.3 Turbo Premium marks an enormous worth improve of $5,455 over the Most well-liked to $47,275. It provides a Towing mode that enhances towing capability to five,000 kilos (from 3,500 kilos), when outfitted, and it rides on 21-inch black alloy wheels. Upgrades embody extra black beauty prospers and, on the within, a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, an influence tailgate, a panoramic sunroof, Bose audio, a satellite tv for pc radio trial, native navigation, and a complicated driver-assist system that may carry the crossover safely to a cease in its lane in case of emergency. It additionally has entrance and rear parking sensors and visitors signal recognition.
The three.3 Turbo Premium Plus prices $50,275 and provides nappa leather-based in crimson or white with distinction stitching, a heated steering wheel, cooled entrance seats, heated rear seats, a surround-view digicam system, and extra superior driver-assist options.
A extra highly effective turbo tune is obtainable within the 3.3 Turbo S fashions that generate 340 hp and 369 lb-ft. With premium gas, it returns an almost an identical EPA score of 23/28/25 mpg mixed, even with the massive features in energy. In fact, it comes with a worth improve of about $6,500 greater than the three.3 Turbo grade.
The three.3 Turbo S Premium prices $53,825, however it has extra upgrades than the three.3 Turbo Premium trim. It has heated power-folding facet mirrors, totally different 21-inch wheel designs, chrome badging, extra black accents, adaptive headlights, and nappa leather-based on the within. It has the entire options of the Turbo Premium Plus, making for extra naming confusion in Mazda’s already complicated trim stroll.
The best grade for the three.3 Turbo S is the Premium Plus for $57,325. It swaddles the CX-70 in Mazda’s most luxurious finishes, together with quilted nappa leather-based, suede sprint panels, extra two-tone inside choices, and a windshield wiper de-icer. That begets a $3,500 worth improve.
2025 Mazda CX-70 PHEV
The third powertrain choice is a plug-in hybrid that Mazda simplifies to the CX-70 PHEV. It groups a 189-hp 2.5-liter inline-4 with a 173-hp electrical motor powered by a 17.8-kwh lithium-ion battery pack. Complete output within the CX-70 is 323 hp and 369 lb-ft with premium gas, and Mazda estimates 26 miles of electrical vary, identical as within the bigger CX-90. It would get the equal of 56 mpg with fuel and electrical energy, and it may possibly tow as much as 3,500 kilos.
The PHEV Premium prices $55,775 and is equally outfitted as the three.3 Turbo Premium. Similar story with the $58,825 PHEV Premium Plus.
The three.3 Turbo S and PHEV fashions go sale this spring, whereas the bottom mannequin will not arrive till fall.
