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The Mazda CX-5 2019 range introduces a new turbocharged petrol four-cylinder engine for the first time - and if it wasn’t for Australia, it may never have been available to anyone else in the world.According to Mazda Australia marketing director Alastair Doak, the new 2.5-litre turbo engine - with a sturdy 170kW of power and 420Nm of torque - was identified by the brand several years ago, when it was first spotted in the pipeline for the CX-9 large SUV.“It was something we asked for - the US were also asking very strongly for that engine,” he said, indicating that it was the strength of the two markets that convinced Japanese headquarters to move on the idea.The new engine sits alongside the existing (non-turbocharged) 2.0-litre and 2.5-litre petrol engines and the 2.2-litre turbo diesel. The 2.5T petrol is only sold in the top two model grades - GT and Akera - but those models are expected to account for more than 40 per cent of sales.“It adds another dimension to the range, in terms of a more premium performance,” Doak said.“There are people who don’t prioritise performance as much,” he said when asked why the brand decided to keep the non-turbo petrol offered alongside the new engine in the GT and Akera models. “We’re all about choice - we live in the private buyer market, and we see the different motivations for buyers. That’s why we’ve kept it.”On the topic of the market, you may not have realised that the Mazda CX-5 is the nation’s biggest-selling SUV. Not just in its segment - across all the segments, this mid-sized SUV is the most popular in the country, and Doak said that’s been the case for quite a while now.“It’s the CX-5’s seventh year as number one - you do that by offering a big range and some good choices for customers."We don’t actively market - it’s never something we’ve chased, because maybe one day it won’t be. “It’s got a real depth and a rich story to the whole range,” Doak said.

The whole point of the Mazda CX-8 was to offer a seven-seat diesel SUV, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon.That’s the message from Mazda Australia, following a recent announcement out of Japan that in the brand’s home market there would be a turbocharged petrol version of the CX-8.The new 2.5-litre turbo petrol four-cylinder has just been added to the CX-5 medium SUV, and is already available in the bigger CX-9 seven-seater. So, according to Mazda Australia marketing director, Alastair Doak, there’s no reason to consider a petrol CX-8.“When we brought in the new CX-8, we did so as a point of difference. That was the justification for offering the diesel model here,” he said. The CX-8 hasn’t set the sales charts alight in its first few months on sale, registering only 1128 sales from June to the end of October. By this year’s sales figures, that’s less than the CX-5 averages in two weeks - but it’s early days yet for the diesel-powered CX-8 seven-seater.Another SUV we won’t see in Australia is the CX-4, which is essentially a swoopy-roofed version of the CX-5. That model is made in China in left-hand drive only, and as such, won’t be sold locally.Despite all that, the CX-3, CX-5, CX-8 and CX-9 are set to combine for more than 50,000 Mazda SUVs sold in Australia in 2018. To the end of October, Mazda had managed to sell 44,011 SUVs, against 39,093 passenger cars and 11,142 utes. “We’re very happy with the range that we’ve got, and everything is firing well,” said Doak. Basically, everything that’s available to us, we have. We will consider adding extra SUVs if more things become available to us.”And it seems there is more to come - Doak suggested that 2019 could see “some pretty good things”, but wouldn’t say anymore than that.