Mazda sticks to its guns, with new-look CX-5 surviving potential Crossover aversion

I have long been a fan of Mazda’s way of doing things. Rarely, if ever, does the Japanese manufacturer follow the road most travelled, preferring instead to find its own solutions to those problems which face the industry on a constant basis.

I mean, just look at the fact that the company is the only manufacturer in the world still to persevere with the unique Wankel rotary engine design — they even won Le Mans with one and I was lucky enough to see (and hear!) that 787B doing its thing up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed back in June. What a racket it made, but terribly impressive nonetheless.

Mazda also reinvented the two-seater roadster concept with the classic MX-5 at a time when such a thing was deemed implausible by pretty much everyone else — and the company gained an army of fans in doing so.