Mazda CX-60 2022 Video Review

Name: Mazda CX-60 2022 Video Review
Uploaded: 2022-07-11T14:38:08+10:00
Description: Mazda is moving up in the world with its new CX-60, its first PHEV, which is also its most powerful car, ever. The new SUV is built on a rear-drive platform - although the PHEV we're driving here is AWD - and will use longitudinally mounted engines, with straight-sixes, both petrol and diesel, still to come. If that sounds a bit European to you, then you're not wrong. Mazda is going premium.

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EXPERT RATING

8.1

Stephen Corby

Contributing Journalist

6 May 2022

12 min read

Stephen Corby

Contributing Journalist

6 May 2022

12 min read

The folks at Mazda have been talking about taking on the Germans for some time. Already hugely successful in this country, the company’s path to further growth has to be upward, into the more premium space, and now it’s launched the car it believes will put it there - the all-new CX-60, which it describes as “Mazda Premium”.

It’s an interesting case of “if you can’t beat them, join them”, because Mazda was already bludgeoning the German marques, but its all new large architecture, featuring longitudinally mounted engines - some of which will be straight-six cylinders, petrol and diesel - rear-wheel drive and a new suspension set-up, double wishbone front, multilink rear, seems to be copied from the Greatest Hits of Europe album.

We went to Portugal to try out the very first CX-60 to hit global markets, the CX-60 e-Skyactiv PHEV, and to see why Mazda is calling this the most important car (okay, it's a crossover SUV, so not a car) it has launched in over a decade.

It also just happens to be the most powerful Mazda production vehicle ever, which sounds pretty enticing.

Read the full Mazda CX-60 2022 review.