Mazda CX-80

2.5 e-Skyactiv PHEV AWD Homura

- STEVE HUNTINGFORD

Mileage 3218

List price £53,230

Best price £51,995 Price as tested £56,080

Test economy 49.8mpg

“IT WILL BE interesting to see what fuel economy I get on longer drives,” I said in my first report on the Mazda CX-80. And, sure enough, its efficiency has varied wildly, depending on the type of journey I'm making.

In my first month or so with this big, plugin hybrid (PHEV) SUV, I was almost exclusively doing short hops in stop-start city traffic, so I could spend virtually all of the time running on electric power. And consequently I averaged a whopping 199.9mpg - 23.3mpg better than the official figure.