Mazda CX-60 SUV - Reliability & safety

The Mazda CX-60 is the Japanese brand’s first-ever plug-in hybrid and it sits on a completely new platform. As such, it’s hard to gauge how reliable the CX-60 will be, although if Mazda has put as much effort into its engineering as it has its interior then owners should have few problems.

We were told that the squeaks and rattles in our early test car would be ironed out by the time customer cars were starting to be delivered; there were no other concerns about the car’s build quality.

Rival manufacturers have managed to make hybrids reliable, so hopefully Mazda has achieved this, too. Its petrol engines have a good reputation for longevity, and Mazda owners praised their cars’ reliability in our 2022 Driver Power survey.

Mazda CX-60 reliability

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The CX-60 is too new to have appeared in our Driver Power data, but the signs are strong. Our readers ranked the Mazda CX-5 the second-best car to own of all new cars on sale, with top-10 placings for exterior styling, ride and handling, reliability and infotainment. As a brand, Mazda finished strongly in seventh place out of 29 brands. More than 25% of owners reported faults in the first year of ownership but, given the CX-5’s high score in this area, faults may have been minor glitches that were quickly sorted.

Safety

Euro NCAP awarded the CX-60 its five-star rating following crash-testing, with a particularly strong score of 91% in the child occupant category. Adult and pedestrian safety also both received high scores, with only the safety assist category slightly disappointing with a score of 76%. Although with blind-spot monitoring, speed limit assists, autonomous emergency braking, traffic sign recognition and lane-keeping assistance there is still plenty of safety tech included. The optional Driver Assistance pack adds even more safety features and allows the car to almost drive itself on a motorway or dual carriageway.

Speccing the Driver Assistance pack adds even more safety features and allows the car to almost drive itself on a motorway.