Mazda announced that the production of the CX-8 will end in late December 2023. The three-row mid-size SUV that is sold in Japan, China, Oceania, and Southeast Asia, will be replaced by the all-new and electrified Mazda CX-80 that is set to debut next year.
The company said that orders and sales of the soon-to-be-discontinued Mazda CX-8 will continue throughout 2024 until the remaining stock runs out.
The Mazda CX-8 was introduced in 2017, as a longer version of the CX-5 with a three-row seating layout. It shared the same architecture with the smaller CX-5 and the larger CX-9. Depending on the market, the SUV was available in 6-seater and 7-seater configurations, in FWD and AWD configurations, and with petrol and diesel powertrain options.
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The CX-8 lineup didn’t include electrified options, something that will certainly change with its successor – the Mazda CX-80. More specifically, the company has revealed that the CX-80 will be available with a plug-in hybrid powertrain based on a four-cylinder petrol engine, alongside 48-Volt mild-hybrid versions of the straight-six Skyactiv-X (petrol), and Skyactive-D (diesel) engines.
The Mazda CX-80 was confirmed nearly two years ago as a member of the automaker’s growing SUV lineup based on the new “Large Architecture” underpinnings. In short, the “narrow-body” CX-60 and CX-80 are designed for markets like Europe and Japan, while the CX-70 and CX-90 are focused on the needs of North American customers.
