Of the 76 used CX-50s for sale in Orange County on Nov. 2, 2026, only 11 are on Bestest.

How this one made the cut

Model: The CX-50 is one of seven Bestest-approved compact SUVs. (Six compact SUVs don't appear on Bestest.)
Year: 2024 is inside Bestest's 2021-2024 window, and not a CX-50 year Bestest rejects.
Trim and powertrain: 2.5 S Preferred (gas). No CX-50 trim or powertrain is on Bestest's exclusions list.
Miles: 17,715 or about 6,300 a year. That's under Bestest's limits of 50,000 miles and 12,000 a year.
Dealer: One of Orange County's 5 Bestest-approved Mazda franchise dealers.

The rest are too old or too new, have too many miles, or sit at independent lots or flagged dealers. How Bestest picks every car

Also on the Beach Boulevard of Cars in Huntington Beach: 27 more Bestest-approved compact SUVs at Huntington Beach Mazda, Huntington Beach Hyundai and 6 other dealers. All on the same boulevard as this CX-50, so you can see and drive them back to back.

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This Bestest-approved 2024 Mazda CX-50 2.5 S Preferred for sale in Huntington Beach has 17,715 miles, and likely has at least 2 years or 42,000 miles left on its original powertrain warranty.

The 2.5 S Preferred sits one step above the base 2.5 S Select. Every CX-50 has all-wheel drive, and this one has the 187-hp 2.5-liter four-cylinder, which the EPA rates at 27 mpg combined.

Mazda's 3-year/36,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty, covering nearly everything but wear items, may still be running on this CX-50: it ends three years after the first sale, so sometime between mid-2026 and late 2027, and at 17,715 miles this one is well inside the mileage cap. Its 5-year/60,000-mile powertrain coverage, for the engine and transmission, likely runs until at least mid-2028 or another 42,000 miles. Both transfer to you in full. Exact warranty coverage dates are determined by the date this CX-50 was first sold. When you check availability, we'll also email you a link to the free Carfax vehicle history report (when available), which includes the exact in-service date and how much warranty is left.

The S Preferred sits a step above the base S Select in the CX-50 lineup. Over the S Select it adds:

Heated front seats
8-way power driver's seat with power lumbar
Power rear liftgate with programmable height
Heated side mirrors and windshield wipers

It carries forward the S Select's Mazda radar cruise control with stop & go, Blind Spot Monitoring, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, leather-wrapped shifter and steering wheel, dual-zone automatic climate control, and driver attention alert.

The 2024 Mazda CX-50 is the second model year of the CX-50, which arrived for 2023 as Mazda's more rugged companion to the CX-5. Every 2024 CX-50 has all-wheel drive and a six-speed automatic, with a choice of a 2.5-liter four-cylinder or a turbocharged version of the same engine. For 2024, Mazda retuned the suspension and steering and dropped two of the lower trims; the 10.25-inch center screen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto carries over.