http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/09/s...x-5-crossover/

 

yes, or CX-5 or CX-7 II (the concept mx-crossport a.k.a. cx-7 is dated 2005 IMHO)

if you watch carefully those images, at the end of the bonnet ,where windscreen "starts" there is a modification, bacause SKY engine needs more space for exhaust collector (explained in that Berlin presentation last summer with the white 6 mule)

SKY under the hood IMHO, not likely mazda3 platform, but the new one.....

 

Front end almost looks like the Infinity FX45

 

thats the camo.

you can see the track width is much smaller than the CX-7s.

 

Okay. I'm throwing my guess in the ring:

I think it's a CX7 test mule with styling enhancements (Facelift again) and a SKYactiv D (Diesel) undergoing extensive testing.

What's going on with suspension, I have no idea.

Paul.

 

I see Shinari lines for the front end under the cover.

 

It looks a lot better than the Mazda5 for sure.

 

Agreed. Although I'm not a fan of small SUV's like x3's and the like. go big or go home lol

 

the rear bumper is different than a CX-7 too, and it makes it look stubbier from the side

 

That looks like an ugly Nissan.

 

It looks like someone drove a CX-7 into a wall!

 

the front tire area looks fukt

 

The lack of a happy face front isnt mazda like.

If under all that its not smiling like mot Mazda these days might finally be a new look.

 

its a MULE It s chassis with bits of body parts on it that happen to fit. the body you are seeing is just tacked on. wheel gaps etc are because the body isnt built for the chassis.

 

It always seems weird to have a mule for a unibody vehicle. If the body isn't built for the chassis, why design with a different body/ in other words, how do you test a rolling chassis when that is not going to be the rolling chassis?
N.American cars just get heavily masked.
Around the D I always see the mules that are wearing a abaya/niqab

 

no NA cars get mules too. all the auto manufacturers use them. Most of the time the are just for suspension testing.

 

Oh. I still don't understand how you can test something when the dimensions and weight of the final product it will be in are different. Anyways, I guess we will have to wait & see a picture with the abaya off. I'm not much of a unibody small ute guy anyways, I have a santa-fe and it is impossible to do a body drop & lay rail . It's just a big car.

 

Wow, throw some spacers on that asap!

 

CX-5 or whatever, it better get improved MPG over the CX-7, esp. the turbo version.

 

According to this it will be SHOWN at GENEVA this March!!




http://content.usatoday.com/communit...ly-next-year/1

 

Called a Mazda Minagi

 

Yes, I knew I saw some Shinari lines under the cover as stated in my previous post

 

thread bump with new pics....

the steering wheel is almost identical to the steering wheel of MInagi concept, the volumes of dashboard resembles the geneva proto too...
a lot smaller than cx-7 IMHO.






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diesel version IMHO (that one seems an intercooler)