2009 Mazda CX-7 Touring AWD

Featuring weather-beating full-time all-wheel drive (AWD), the 2009 Mazda CX-7 Touring AWD also offers such additional standard amenities as leather upholstery, an eight-way power-adjustable driver’s seat, and heated front seats. Options run the gamut from voice-activated DVD navigation to a remote starting system to a power moonroof to a Class II towing package to a 6-CD changer with nine Bose Centerpoint surround-sound speakers.

The ’09 CX-7 Touring AWD gets its giddyup from the one-and-only 244-hp, 258-lb-ft/torque turbocharged inline-four (I4) engine and accompanying six-speed auto-manual transmission. This mighty might can tow 2,000 pounds when properly equipped, but the AWD system cuts mpg to 16/22.

By Eric Tallberg