Next on the calendar is a backup for the crumbling Ford Escape bunched SUV and its two sisters, the Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute. All will be based on the new Focus platform, but will be added differentiated from anniversary added and from Ford's afresh launched European Kuga crossover, which is additionally actuality redesigned for the 2011 timeframe per "One Ford" planning.
Our intel indicates the 2011 Mazda CX-5 will be the best abolitionist of this bunch, a swoopy 5-passenger wagon blooming somewhat on the Kazamai abstraction from the August 2008 Moscow Auto Show. Kazamai--the name agency "swirling crosswinds" in Japanese--is the latest examination of Mazda's new nagare or "flow" administration affair appear by a like-named 2006 concept.
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2011 Mazda CX-5 won't be about as agrarian as those architecture studies, but it should be RX-8 ample and distinctive. Likely administration elements, appropriate by appear abstract renderings, accommodate cycle-type front-fender forms, an arising Mazda hallmark; a broad "five-point" grille; heavily sculpted bodysides with upswept windowsill lines; and a trim appendage with basal metal abaft the rear wheels. We additionally apprehend a two-way liftgate with separate-opening glass. Britain's Auto Express annual is the alone antecedent admiration rear-access doors a la RX-8. As those assume rather abstract for a crossover, we'd attending for accepted front-hinged doors, if still rather attenuated ones. Sizewise, CX-5 should be abutting to Escape/Mariner/Tribute except for height, which we appraisal will appear bottomward by 2-3 inches
