Earlier larger SUVs than CX-5 did not catch on
Mazda recently proudly reported that there are already more than 1,000 orders for the CX-60 in the Netherlands. The new large SUV above the CX-5 is therefore a direct hit. Just like the CX-5 when it arrived in 2012. Previous large SUVs with the letter combination CX in the type name were not as successful. The CX-9 especially had a hard time. He was only given a period of just under a year and a half to prove himself in our country. The CX-7 was allowed to stay for five years but was just as unhappy.
He was a quiet boy, and he was. The Mazda CX-9 was one of those cars that lacked nothing essential, certainly nothing wrong with it, but which also left no impression. He was only there for a short time; Unfortunately, after his launch in April 2009 it quickly became wet on board, after which he went under in December 2010 inexorably and above all lonely and alone.
301 copies of the CX-9 via Mazda channel
According to the statistics on our website, a total of 301 copies found a loving owner (m/f). There are probably a few more, because the sale of the CX-9 via the gray import started earlier. A garage company in Almelo brought the car to the Netherlands in mid-2007, in response to the SUV hunger that was already prevailing at the time. By the way, don’t worry: there’s not a bad word about the car in question here, we’re just saying that it almost escaped our collective memory. .
The handful of buyers who embraced the CX-9 got their hands on a particularly tasty SUV, with a super-strong 3.7-liter V6, four-wheel drive and just about every luxury you could wish for at the time. The enjoyment took place completely anonymously, in a car with the regal size of an Audi Q7. Interestingly, a six-cylinder petrol engine returns in the new CX-60. Pending the final specifications of that version, the newcomer is listed in the accompanying table as the available four-cylinder plug-in hybrid. That really makes it painfully clear how much the mechanics of the CX-9, with which you could still feel supreme in 2009, has been relegated to the second plan. The CX60 engine has 1.3 liters less displacement, but armed with a turbo and electric drive it hits 100 almost twice as fast. And yet something negative about the CX-9: its unbecoming thirst by current standards. The two-ton SUV wanted to consume an average of 13 liters of juice every 100 kilometers. We found that quite acceptable at the time. And the CX-60? According to the books 1.5 liters. Or 17.1 kWh of electricity, of course. 
Then there was the Mazda CX-7, of which Mazda sold 405 in the Netherlands. He was given five years to make friends; as a big contrast, the CX-5 is proudly in the sales top 5 of Mazda’s in the Netherlands.
Incidentally, the Mazda CX-7 and CX-9 are still available outside Europe in newer guises. During the endurance test with the Mazda CX-5 in 2018, we already picked up a CX-9 that came to our country via parallel import. A CX-80, which will probably come to the Netherlands, is on the roll and the CX-90 will be the successor of the CX-9.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl