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2025 Mazda CX-50 Hybrid Long-Term Review, Part 1: Let's Talk!

Over the next few weeks, we'll be getting to know the 2025 Mazda CX-50 Hybrid. Here is the first chapter of our long-term test of the model.

On this very site, you may recall, we previously explored the merits and shortcomings of the new Mazda CX-50. Three years later, Mazda Canada suggested I get better acquainted with the hybrid version of the SUV. I didn't have to be asked twice.

The Mazda family
Go to the Mazda.ca website and you will see that the Japanese automaker’s portfolio is all about simplicity.

First, there are four cars, but really only two, since each model is split into a distinct variant. There’s the Mazda3 compact sedan and its hatchback version, the Mazda3 Sport; and there’s the delightful MX-5 two-seater soft-top convertible (formerly called Miata) and its counterpart with a retractable aluminum fastback roof, the MX-5 RF.

The other eight models are all all-wheel-drive SUVs.

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