It seems like we get a new update about Mazda’s plan for the rotary engine every few months. The automaker kept tinkering with the technology after the RX-8’s demise, but efficiency mandates left the high-revving Wankel on the sidelines, prohibiting the introduction of a true successor to the rotary coupe. Yet the motor hung around […]
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The Mazda CX-5 Crossover Outsold All Other Mazdas Combined in January
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The Mazda CX-5 Crossover Outsold All Other Mazdas Combined in January
– We’re big fans of the Mazda CX-5, which won one of our 2018 10Best Trucks and SUVs awards, and we really like the rest of Mazda’s U.S. lineup, too. The American buying public only seems to agree with us on the first part of that equation, however, because the CX-5 sold more units in January […]
Mazda’s Not-So-Silly Plan to End Distracted Driving With Much More Fun
It’s the sort of thinking we’ll need more of as driving gets complicated and distraction ramps up. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a4fff3f69f22d579c1a8a31/master/pass/mazdamiata.jpg Feed: All Latest
Driving Mazda’s Next Mazda 3 with Its Skyactiv-X Compression-Ignition Gas Engine – Prototype Drive
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Driving Mazda’s Next Mazda 3 with Its Skyactiv-X Compression-Ignition Gas Engine
– Mazda had a simple explanation for why we had flown to Germany to drive its made-in-Japan next-generation Mazda 3 hatchback in prototype guise: Such early prototypes are allowed to roam German roads, as they are not in Japan, at least not without passing rigorous inspections. Oh, and Mazda has a technical center in Germany […]
Touge Party: Driving Vintage Mazdas on the 2017 Touge California Rally
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Why Mazda’s Skyactiv-X compression-ignition engine is a smart hedge bet
Mazda has cracked the code on a compression-ignition engine, called Skyactiv-X (which utilizes SCCI, or Spark Controlled Compression Ignition). That’s a neat engineering accomplishment, sure, but why is the tiny company investing big dollars in fancy tech that’s frustrated the much larger companies who’ve investigated it? In this case, Mazda is peering into a crystal […]
Mazda’s U.S. chief reassigned in leadership shuffle
Robert Davis is out as senior vice president of Mazda’s U.S. operations as part of a leadership shuffle at the automaker’s North American division, in the wake of a 6.7 percent decline in U.S. sales last year. Automotive News Breaking News Feed
