The car Mazda likes to call a C-MAV (Compact-Multi Activity Vehicle) has been given an overhaul, with some new model names, prices and heck, even finance packages. Read on to find out more. Or, if you've decided that a C-MAV with sliding doors is the last thing you'd like to buy, let alone read about in your spare time, click here to look at Aston Martins.

Still here? Ok, there are no physical changes to the seven-seat 5, so it's not a proper facelift really, but the TS2 and Sport models are replaced by the 'Takara' and 'Furano' versions. They've got slightly better equipment levels, which makes them better value, and, we're told, simplifies the range (even though TS1 to TS2 to Sport makes far more sense to us than TS1 to Takara to Furano).

Power comes from 1.8- and 2.0-litre petrol engines with 37.7mpg and 35.8mpg respectively; and there's a 2.0-litre diesel in 108- and 141bhp forms, which both return the same 46.3mpg combined despite the power chasm.

Prices start at £17,150 for a TS1 with a 1.8-litre petrol, rising to £21,555 for a high-power diesel Furano. The equipment levels are much as you'd expect, with base models getting plastic wheel trims and sliding doors that you must, for shame, open using your arms. Higher cars get electric doors. The 2.0-litre petrol can be had with an automatic 'box, and if you've got a 50% deposit, any 5 can be had with 0% finance until March.

Mark Nichol - 23 Dec 2009