For decades, Volkswagen and Audi have held the only options for North American shoppers wanting a highly efficient model with a four-cylinder turbo-diesel—their 2.0-liter TDI engine. Now, with Mazda, ...

Mazda teased a special kind of high-mpg diesel zoom-zoom for a decade. And then it fizzled in months. By the time the 2019 Mazda CX-5 Skyactiv-D finally arrived in 2019, diesel was on the verge of ...

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Mazda had the best of intentions six years ago when it proclaimed it would begin offering diesel engines in the United States in 2012 to make its fleet more fuel efficient. But there was a problem. To ...

In spite of the saying "ain't no replacement for displacement," manufacturers are making their engines smaller by the day. Ford has its 1.0-liter EcoBoost, and Mini a 1.5-liter three cylinder motor.

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Mazda's long-promised diesel engine finally reached American automotive consumers in the 2019 CX-5 diesel. Alas, its time on our shores was short, with Mazda dropping the engine from its compact ...

It's not easy being Mazda as we head into 2017. As the automotive world begins what may be an inexorable shift from driving to riding in on-demand, autonomous, electric vehicles, the Mazda ethos that ...

The diesel engine is just about done with in North America, (at least in light-duty cars and trucks), which means it’s just about the perfect time for Mazda to bring us one. Ok, that might sound a ...