Is this the best looking seven seater you can buy right now? Rave all you like about the Range Rover or new Volvo XC90 or Volkswagen ID. Buzz, but it’s up there. Confident, striking, unapologetic… if not entirely original. Tell us that’s not a MkII Espace from the back. We are of course gushing over the Hyundai Santa Fe, and not the gopping red Routemaster we’ve dumped next to it.
Hmm, that sounds harsher than it’s meant to. Mazda’s one of those that’s set itself ground rules for what its cars should look like, a doctrine laid down by the elegant Vision Coupe that wowed Tokyo some years ago. Applied to something much taller, the swooping lines and creased furrows of that concept don’t rock the boat here. But in this company, the CX-80 looks a tad sorry for itself.
