Mazda Plans Small RWD SUV
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Mazda Plans Small RWD SUV
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What you would think is inconceivable may just become reality. Mazda, according to Pistonheads, is planning to build a small SUV on the rear-wheel-drive Mazda MX-5 platform. The new RWD SUV is set for a 2008 Paris Motor Show world premiere.
Pistonheads seem to have had a brief talk with European Mazda boss James Muir and quote him saying: “I do see SUVs getting smaller and being more car-like in their behaviour. Maybe we can look at rear-wheel-drive platform sharing and we have a rear-wheel-drive platform with the MX-5.”
Mazda has been developing light-weight high-tensile steel and lighter weight powertrains in order to build a small, and ultmately lightweight SUV.
In our archives we found an artist rendering of the CX-5 which seems to fit reasonably well with the description James Muir gives, although styling may be entirely different of course.
http://www.worldcarfans.com/9071127....-small-rwd-suv
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it looks like the Porsche SUV from hell
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not diggin it, i think it coulda ben much better, like an acura rdx (or w/e its called) as a matter of fact i think thats what it should have been based of...head to head small sporty TURBO suv's ;-)
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I probably shouldn't have even posted the associated picture. It is a "artist rendering" of what they thought it would look like. It looks like a bad photoshop job to me. Everyone is crapping on how bad it looks, when we don't know how it will look.
It says it will be built on a MX5 floorpan, so it could handle good. If it doesn't end up too top heavy.
It says it will be built on a MX5 floorpan, so it could handle good. If it doesn't end up too top heavy.
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