You are 100%correct (I had a brain fart moment) there is some difference in the body with slight angle differences in the tailgate bottom corners and fuel filler door and other small things, although mine is assembled in Hiroshima all the running gear and most of the electrics are ford although the ford ranger that is sold here has Mazda running gear, so I would say that badge engineering is still alive and well, although the Mazda mob tell me the 2018 CX range has no ford in it at all, I'am not too sure I would believe them
Also in aus Mazda gave a longer warranty than ford prior to the last 3 years, after kia started having a 7 year 175000 km warranty all our local mobs have increased their warranties to minimum 5 years whereas prior to that you were lucky to get 12 months 20000km or 2 years 40000km
