While Mazda doesn't have a wide variety of SUVs consumers consistenly find that the Mazda brand offers some of the best quality SUVs on the road. Currently, Mazda offers the
Tribute which is a small crossover SUV with all the power and space you can need without the gas gussling and excessive space associated with other SUVs. Why have all that space if you don't need quite that much? Mazda is great and keeping consumers in mind, and they have really stayed the course and offered something to those people that wouldn't normally think of an SUV but they need something bigger than a car, not as traditional as a minivan, and not as big as the other SUVs on the market.
The Mazda Navajo and Tribute have been big players in the SUV market and you'll see plenty of them on the roads in the years to come as Mazda continues to keep up with the times. Unlike other companies that will release a SUV and make limited changes, Mazda will continue to update and modernize its SUVs so that they are functional and offer the type of space the consumer needs most. If Mazda believes they need to go bigger and badder, you'll see that.
Mazda SUVs will definitely be keeping up with the times. As more and more hybrid vehicles hit the streets, Mazda will go there as well. Mazda plans on having a hybrid Tribute out by 2007 which will appeal to those same consumers looking for a uniquely sized vehicle as well as those that are concious of the environment. Mazda has been responsible in their SUV planning, and if the past is indicative of the future, they'll continue to provide exactly what the SUV consumer is looking for in the future.