The 2025 Mazda CX-70 has officially debuted as a two-row alternative to the flagship CX-90.
There’s a common theme among pretty much every automaker these days, whether they are a luxury marque or a mainstream brand: build more crossovers. If there’s a white space left to fill, manufacturers need to fill it, and Mazda has been working to expand its crossover lineup over the past several years. First we got the CX-50 as a larger, more rugged-looking lifestyle model to the more urban CX-5, then the company replaced its old CX-9 with the elegantly styled CX-90. Now, there’s another creation meant to fill the gap between those two models: the 2025 Mazda CX-70.
Full disclosure: The event to which Mazda brought Roman and I out in California is just a first look experience. The automaker is not too keen to share technical details on this model just yet, but…you may well make an educated guess what’s coming based on what is already available in global markets (including the European CX-60). Top-line numbers Mazda did disclose includes a 5,000-pound towing capacity (like the CX-90) and two available engines (again, like the CX-90). I’m sure you can spot the trend.
Fundamentally, if you don’t need a three-row family hauler, the CX-70 is meant to be a spacious two-row alternative offering up similar styling and features, while also offering a larger alternative to the brand’s smaller offerings. While we don’t have official numbers, my experience on the ground suggests the car will lose a few inches from the CX-90’s 200.8-inch overall length (201.4, if you count the front license plate holder) and have a slightly shorter rear overhang. Update: We learned after we filmed the video that, apparently, the CX-70 is not in fact shorter than the CX-90. The length between the two vehicles is the same, it’s just that the CX-70 does not have a third row.
From the front, the 2025 Mazda CX-70 does change up the lower fascia a bit, but the overall styling philosophy remains the same. This new model has a similarly long hood to the CX-90 to accommodate a 3.3-liter turbocharged straight-six as the base engine, or a 2.5-liter-backed plug-in hybrid powertrain if you opt for an electrified experience with roughly 25 miles of pure EV driving range, based on EPA specs for the CX-70’s larger sibling.
Under the hood, the 2025 Mazda CX-70 should (again, we don’t have full specs just yet) offer the same range of options as the CX-90. That means the Turbo models should come in one of two flavors, with base models putting out 280 horsepower and 332 lb-ft of torque, and higher end “Plus” models offering up the full 340 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque. The PHEV, for its part, offers just one configuration across three distinct trims in the CX-90, with 323 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque combined output.
Inside, the 2025 Mazda CX-70 sports a functionally identical interior to the CX-90 from the second row forward. Mazda did tout a new feature called Unresponsive Driver Support, an addition to the i-ActivSense suite of safety features that will automatically attempt to start the car if the system detects the driver is having a medical incident through a series of escalating alerts. The CX-70 Turbo model we looked at also had the red Nappa leather interior, which borrows cues from the automaker’s 100th Anniversary models that debuted back in 2020.
While the 12.3-inch infotainment display is identical to what’s on the larger CX-90, the 2025 Mazda CX-70 also incorporates Amazon Alexa into the mix. That allows more sophisticated hands-free commands inside the vehicle than Mazda’s native voice recognition system, while also allowing drivers to control certain home devices while they’re away.
How much will the 2025 Mazda CX-70 cost?
Even if we did have a full spec deck on the new CX-70, one number we definitely won’t have until closer to launch is its price. Again, with a host of similarities to its big brother, we can make some fairly safe assumptions as to where MSRPs across the trim walk will land. For reference, the 2024 Mazda CX-90 runs from about $41,000 to $61,000, depending on which model you choose.
When it does launch in the spring, I’d expect the 2025 Mazda CX-70 to run for a few thousand less than its three-row stablemate. If anything, expect the model to start somewhere in the upper-$30,000 range (perhaps around $36,000 to $38,000), with top-end prices running in the mid-to-upper-$50,000 range.
Check out our closer look at both the 3.3-liter Turbo and the PHEV CX-70 models in our walkaround video below, and stay tuned for more updates when we have official specs from Mazda.
