2025 Mazda 2 price and specs: Most popular model grade axed, base price up $4100

https://media.drive.com.au/obj/tx_q:70,rs:auto:1920:1080:1/driveau/upload/cms/uploads/cbd7a20e-79b0-52a6-b4eb-4a1db6850000

The base-model Mazda 2 has been axed, despite accounting for 45 per cent of sales – alongside new features and price rises for the remaining variants.

  • 2025 Mazda 2 pricing and specifications
  • Pure grade axed, despite accounting for 45 per cent of sales
  • New features for Evolve trim
  • Priced from $26,990 before on-road costs

The Mazda 2 model grade that accounted for nearly one in two sales has been dropped from the line-up, pushing the price of the cheapest model up by $4120 – or 18 per cent – alongside new features.

A 2025 update for the Mazda 2 will see the entry-level Pure grade dropped – despite accounting for 45 per cent of sales, more than any other variant – alongside the Pure SP ‘black edition’.

It will leave the Evolve as the new entry-level version of Mazda’s smallest car, priced from $26,990 plus on-road costs – $4120 more than the Pure manual, and $2120 more than the Pure auto.

MORE: 2025 Mazda CX-3 price and specs – Base price up $3400 with model shuffle, spec boost

The Evolve is $620 dearer for 2025 to account for additional equipment, while the top-of-the-range GT – which is unchanged, in hatch and sedan bodies – has received a $120 price bump.

Drive-away prices are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected the Evolve – now Mazda’s most affordable new car – will now be priced above the $30,000 drive-away mark in all states and territories bar one.

All remaining variants are six-speed automatic only, with the deletion of the base Pure manual – leaving the MX-5 as Mazda’s last new car with a manual transmission.

New for the 2025 Mazda 2 Evolve are 16-inch black alloy wheels, adaptive cruise control, and a higher speed range for the autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system – the latter two previously exclusive to the GT grade.

Australian models miss out on a new-generation 8.8-inch infotainment screen running updated Mazda Connect software recently introduced to the Mazda 2 in Japan.

Examples sold locally will instead continue with older MZD Connect software – which was offered in the current-generation Mazda 2 at launch in 2014 – running on a 7.0-inch touchscreen.

Powering the Mazda 2 range is an 81kW/142Nm 1.5-litre non-turbo four-cylinder petrol engine, matched with a six-speed automatic transmission and front-wheel drive.

Fuel consumption is rated at 5.0 litres per 100 kilometres for the line-up, irrespective of body style.

Orders are open now for the revised 2025 Mazda 2 range, ahead of first deliveries due in the first quarter of next year (January to March).

Almost 5000 Mazda 2 hatchbacks and sedans have been reported as sold so far this year, the third-best seller in the ‘light car’ market segment as classified by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, behind the MG 3 and Suzuki Swift.

2025 Mazda 2 price in Australia

  • Mazda 2 G15 Evolve hatch – $26,990 (up $620)
  • Mazda 2 G15 GT hatch – $28,190 (up $120)
  • Mazda 2 G15 GT sedan – $28,190 (up $120)

Note: All prices above exclude on-road costs.


2025 Mazda 2 G15 Evolve standard features:

  • Adaptive cruise control (new)
  • Higher-speed autonomous emergency braking (new)
  • 16-inch alloy wheels (now finished in black)
  • Dusk-sensing LED headlights
  • LED daytime-running lights
  • ‘Mesh-style’ black front grille
  • Chrome exhaust tip extension
  • 7.0-inch MZD Connect infotainment touchscreen with wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, satellite navigation, AM/FM/DAB+ radio, Bluetooth
  • Head-up display
  • Six-speaker sound system
  • Push-button start
  • Single-zone climate control air conditioning
  • Black cloth seat upholstery with red highlights
  • Leather-trimmed steering wheel and gear selector
  • Height-adjustable driver’s seat
  • Rain-sensing wipers
  • Auto-dimming rear-view mirror
  • Auto-folding, body-coloured side mirrors
  • Six airbags
  • Autonomous emergency braking, forward and reverse at low to medium speeds
  • Lane departure warning
  • Lane-keep assist
  • Blind-spot monitoring
  • Rear cross-traffic alert
  • Traffic sign recognition
  • Rear-view camera
  • Rear parking sensors

2025 Mazda 2 G15 GT adds (over G15 Evolve):

  • 16-inch silver and black alloy wheels
  • Black leather and Grand Luxe synthetic suede upholstery
  • 360-degree camera
  • Keyless entry
  • Front parking sensors

The post 2025 Mazda 2 price and specs: Most popular model grade axed, base price up $4100 appeared first on Drive.

img

Top 5 Porsche

×