What is Skyactiv? Marketing speak, of course. It is the single word Mazda has invented to represent a diverse spread of technologies and strategies aimed at improving efficiency. As such, Skyactiv has ...

Mazda unleashed its all-encompassing Skyactiv automotive technologies in 2010 to increase fuel economy with zero penalties to handling and performance. Although Skyactiv became increasingly known for ...

It may not be quite as radical as some of the company’s past rotary racers, but the new Mazda6 Skyactiv-D racecar does have a notable powertrain underhood: the automaker’s brand-new clean diesel ...

At the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata reveal event last month, Mazda was tight-lipped about any powertrain details of the new car. This opened up plenty of speculation about what would power the latest version ...

Mazda has announced a new four-cylinder engine, the Skyactiv-Z. Set to replace the Skyactiv-G and Skyactiv-X engines, the Skyactiv-Z aims to build on Mazda’s commitment to high efficiency and low ...

The first Mazda to integrate all core Skyactiv technologies has clocked five million deliveries in the span or just around 15 years ...

Mazda representative director, president, and chief executive officer Masahiro Moro has confirmed what everyone and their dog was looking forward to from the Japanese automaker's best-selling model.

According to Car and Driver, the next-generation Mazda3 is set to undergo an extensive overhaul, similar to what the Japanese automaker has done with its larger Mazda6 sedan. On the powertrain front, ...

In 2007, Mazda Motor Corp. made an outlandish promise. Though the company planned to continue exclusively making petroleum engines, its “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom Strategy” vowed to provide customers ...

Mazda’s left-of-field approach when it comes to power trains has come a long way since 1961, when it first dabbled in the murky rotary engine waters. These days, it builds some of the most reliable ...

Mazda has been building reliable automobiles for almost a century. Founded in 1920 as a cork manufacturer (originally Toyo Cork Kogyo) by Jujuro Matsuda, the business completed its transition into the ...

The Mazda 3 Turbo AWD might be the biggest secret in the tuner world, and here’s how easy it is to gain power.