2024 Mazda CX-80 to be revealed on April 18

The 2025 Mazda CX-80 will make its global debut in exactly one week (at 8:00pm AEST on April 18), before it becomes the fourth member of Mazda’s growing Large Product Group model range later this year.

Destined to slot in between the upcoming CX-70 and the established CX-90, the CX-80 will be offered globally in five- and six-seat configurations, the former comprising a pair of free-standing captain’s chairs in the second row instead of a traditional three-seat bench.

The third row, meantime, will be the familiar two-seat arrangement employed by most large seven-seat SUVs.

Mazda has long pitched the CX-80 as the spiritual successor for the hugely popular but now-retired CX-9, leaving the bigger and more luxurious CX-90 to rattle the cages of Genesis, BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz in the premium large SUV market.

All ‘Large Architecture’ Mazda vehicles are underpinned by the same modular platform designed specifically for rear- and all-wheel drive configurations, while powertrains extend to a pair of turbocharged straight sixes (one petrol, one diesel) and turbo-petrol-electric four-cylinder plug-in hybrid.

Mazda Australia has already confirmed the CX-80 will be coming to Australia but has thus far stopped short of announcing a timeframe for its local release, however, an April reveal points to a local release in either the third or fourth quarter of this year.

Whether or not it beats the wider but only five-seat CX-70 to market remains to be seen.

Today’s announcement was made in tandem with the release of the first official teaser from Mazda, showing off one of the CX-80’s rear corners which, as expected, looks just like that of the other Large Architecture models.

Pricing is expected to start somewhere in the mid- to high-$60,000s based on the CX-60’s current $60,550 opening figure and the CX-90’s own $74,550 starting mark.

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