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Long-term report: Reflecting on our time with the Mazda MX-30

After a year in our possession, it’s time to hand the MX-30 back to Mazda – and to sum up what we’ve learned after living with the uniquely-shaped EV for the last 12 months.

Let’s start with the positives. When the MX-30 first arrived, I wasn’t at all convinced by its crossover-slash-coupe looks – I thought it was a niche that, quite frankly, didn’t need to exist. A year on though, I’ve grown to like its shapely body and rough-and-tough plastic body cladding. I suspect it’s one of those cars whose design is a smidge ahead of the

Long-term report: What does the Mazda CX-5 have to offer?

Say hello to VX71CWG – our new Mazda CX-5, which we’ll be putting through its paces for the next few months. After a year of living with the almost experimental MX-30 electric car, we’ve now got the chance to remind ourselves of what Mazda does best: petrol engines, manual gearboxes, and uh… a medium-sized SUV body style.

Okay, it might not be what first springs to mind when we think of Mazda, but the CX-5 accounts for 26 per cent of the cars it sells in the UK – and perhaps even more impressively, is Mazda’s best-selling model