Mazda has revealed a plan for three completely new SUVs, complete with the hybrid drive plug-in option, because it is getting farther into electrification. Mazda CX-50, CX-70, and CX-90 will reach various sizes and price points, although it also means saying goodbye to one mainstay line-up car maker now.

When naming suggests, new models will be related – in spirit, at least – to Mazda CX-30. That is not a bad thing: Mazda compact crossover is one of the more entertaining models in the segment, with prizes above the average for anyone behind the wheel, and the dynamics that trust their practicality.

CX-50 will be a larger version, and share the same platform as CX-30 (and, in this case, the latest Mazda is well received). This will display the drive system of all wheels that are enhanced by the car maker, ICAIctive AWD, along with what is vaguely Mazda refers to “functionality for consumers with an active outdoor lifestyle.” We are not too long waiting to find out exactly what it means; Production is set to start in January 2022, at the Joint Venture Factory, Mazda Toyota Manufacturing in Huntsville, Alabama.

Beyond it, there will be two, a bigger SUV, based on the new “large” platform. CX-90 will come first, use the Longitudinal Mazda architecture and offer hybrid powertrain inline-six cylinders and plug-ins. The right details on the machines are not clear at this stage.

Following the CX-90 will become CX-70. Based on the same platform, and also using the same engine array, CX-70 will have two lines of seats while the CX-90 will offer three lines. Without surprisingly, then, the arrival of the CX-90 will mean farewell offerings to the Mazda SUV at this time, CX-9.

CX-50 and CX-70, vice versa, will live side by side with the remaining Mazda line-up. 2022 CX-5 will get the drive all the wheels of the standard – the features that the car maker will now be standardized in all CX family vehicles – but the CX-3 Compact Crossover and Mazda6 sedans will be stopped in the US.

What still has to be seen is how competitively plug-in Hybrid DriveTrain Mazda. Car makers have quarreled in joining the electrification party, focusing their attention for a long time to persuade greater efficiency of gas machines (and, in Europe, Diesel). The arrival of the MX-30 EV showed a change in strategy, despite the range of the meager of the car – and the purpose of sales of the Mazda sub-600 unit in US geography was limited – showing it was not a wholesale electricity turnover that many people expect.

However, crossover and SUVs have become the strongest sales models on the Mazda line-up for some time now, as well as the rest of the automotive industry. Able to be a new model there is only a company needed, because it is – maybe a little reluctant – try to apply the electrification strategy for the next few years.