Mazda believes cars should be fun to drive, and we have a long history of doing that our own way. We mass-produced the rotary engine used in our legendary RX sports cars and built the world's best-selling, lightweight roadster, the Mazda MX-5. With our all-new compact crossover SUV, the Mazda CX-5, we believe we've done it again.
When we began the development of our next-generation SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY, we asked ourselves a simple question: "How can we continue to make driving fun, while significantly improving fuel efficiency?" To do this, we began completely from scratch, re-engineering all the major components - the engine, the transmissions, the chassis and the body.
It's a known fact that 70-90% of the energy produced in a conventional engine's combustion process is lost. So we revisited the internal combustion engine, and tried to perfect it, starting with designing a single ideal...