Would I Be Insane?
The car I currently drive is getting close to retirement and for the next stage of my life I am hoping to build a weekend warrior car camper/ light overlander build and want advice.
I am currently hanging between buying a 22-25 Outback Wilderness and a 26 Mazda Cx-50 Hybrid. I want to know if I would be totally insane to buy the CX-50 over the Outback. I dont know who here would have experience with both brands for overlanding it appears no ones really tried the Mazda's much. The reason I am considering this is the CX-50 Hybrid uses a Toyota eCVT transmission which is supposedly much more reliable than traditional CVT'S it also is AWD with similar HP to the wilderness and it gets 40MPG. It also has over 8 inches clearance. Its not as all around useful as the wilderness but to me it looks like it could be an underated overlander.
The main problem is the lack of AM support for MAZDA compared to the Outback.