Mazda is celebrating a winning performance at the 2025 Scottish Car of the Year (SCOTY) Awards, with the Mazda CX-80 claiming the Best Large Car title at the prestigious annual award ceremony. Launched earlier this year, the Mazda CX-80 is the flagship of the Mazda line-up in Europe, sitting above the CX-60 in Mazda’s award-winning SUV range.
Featuring three-row seating it’s the most spacious SUV ever offered by Mazda in the UK and with its high-quality cabin, technically advanced drivetrains and elegant design is created to challenge established premium brands in the European market. Powered by the same engines as the Mazda CX-60, there’s a choice of plug-in hybrid – which combines a Skyactiv-G 2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with a 129kW electric motor and a 17.8 kWh high-capacity battery – or Mazda’s advanced in-line six-cylinder 254ps 3.3-litre e-Skyactiv D diesel engine. Across both powertrain options, the Mazda CX-80 is exclusively matched to all-wheel drive.
This year’s award recognition follows on from the Mazda CX-60 e-Skyactiv D winning the SCOTY Best Large SUV title in 2023 and the Best Plug-in Hybrid title taken by the CX-60 PHEV in 2022. Commenting on the Mazda CX-80’s award, ASMW President, Ally Ballingall, said: “the Mazda CX-80 claimed the Large Car Award thanks to its exceptional blend of sophistication, space and driving poise. Judges praised its premium cabin, seven-seat flexibility and beautifully judged refinement”. Adding, “its smooth powertrains and confident handling set it apart from bulkier rivals. Combining elegance with real family practicality, the CX-80 stood out as the class’s most complete package.”
Commenting on the Mazda CX-80’s SCOTY title, Mazda Motors UK, Managing Director, Jeremy Thomson, said: “the Mazda CX-80 is a car that sits at the very top of our range in the UK, it offers a unique blend of space, practicality, luxury and stand-out design. It combines progressive design anchored in Japanese aesthetics with outstanding on-board accommodation that delivers quality, style, flexibility and superior technology, all combined with the signature driving performance delivered by every Mazda, so I’m delighted that the ASMW have honoured it with their Best Large Car title.”
Adding: “I’m also really excited that next year our dealers in Scotland and across the rest of the UK will see the arrival of the all-new Mazda CX-5 and the all-new Mazda6e, so it’s going to be an exciting year of new models for Mazda”.
Dimensionally, the Mazda CX-80 sees the wheelbase grow by 250mm compared to the CX-60 to deliver the space needed for a practical three-row interior. Furthermore, to ensure passenger comfort, the CX-80 is 26mm taller than the CX-60. However, with an identical width to the CX-60, the CX-80 retains familiar styling and nose on profile of its smaller sibling.
Offered in the UK across five highly specified grades: Exclusive-Line, Homura, Takumi, Homura Plus and Takumi Plus, the CX-80 comes with a choice of three middle row configurations: a three-person bench seat, two captain’s seats with a walk-through space or two captain’s seats with a fixed centre console. The seven-seat layout with the middle row-bench is standard, while the two different six seat layout configurations are optional.
Full details of the Mazda CX-80 range can be found here: https://mazdamediapacks.com/en/2025-mazda-cx-80/model-release.html.
