I am a longtime Mazda driver who still owns the Mazda5 and love the look of the Mazda CX5. My only reservation is the mileage. 80% of my driving in the city, and Hybrid models provide much more potential savings.(24 mpg vs 42 mpg). Planning to drive around 6-8 thousand a year. Looks like Hybrid technologies are the way to go. I can get Mazda at a discount today but there is a dealer markup and wait time for hybrid Kia. Want to hear some expert opinions here. Thanks.
Use https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/savemoney.jsp to compare both vehicles (don’t forget to put the prices of both vehicles to have a fair comparison as the sportage is a bit pricier).
From quickly entering your parameters (and NOT considering the price difference of the 2 cars), you’ll probably end up saving in gas a grand total of about $5k over the span of 10 years if the gas price remains as high as $3.75/gal. If you own your car for less years or if you do less driving or less city driving/more highway driving or if you consider that gas isn’t as pricy as what I used for the calculator, then the saving goes way down obviously.
TLDR: IDK what else there is to the sportage that the cx-5 doesn’t have (equal trim comparison), but I’d much rather have mazda reliability over the little $500/year (which could be even lower due to sportage being pricier) the sportage has to offer.