Mazda Australia clearly believes there’s big business in catering for large families.

Having successfully lobbied in 2007 to grab a right-hand-drive version of the US-focused CX-9 seven-seater SUV, the company has now diverted the new CX-8 seven-seater from the Japanese brand’s domestic market. It makes Australia and New Zealand the only countries in the world to feature two Mazda seven-seater SUVs.

In case the word ‘overkill’ has popped into your head, there is some logic to the two-prong approach: the CX-9 is petrol only; the CX-8 is exclusively a diesel. The CX-8 is also a bit shorter and narrower – and is essentially a long-wheelbase CX-5. From the door pillar forwards, the two models are virtually identical.
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