SKYACTIV

As a race driver with a mechanical engineering degree, Joel Miller often fields technical questions about our Mazda Prototypes powered by the SKYACTIV diesel engine such as, “What is SKYACTIV?”

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November 4, 2014 (LAS VEGAS) – The Mazda MX-5 Miata is the best-selling roadster in history, and the most road-raced car in the world.  With the recent unveiling of the fourth generation MX-5, the most frequently asked question is “Where will it race?”  Mazda gave the first part of that answer at the Specialty Equipment […]”

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Good competitors know their strengths and play to them; great competitors know their weaknesses and work to fix them. After a fantastic season in Grand-Am GX, where the Mazda6 SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel won nine races and the manufacturers championship, expectations are high as Mazda and its race partner, SpeedSource Race Engineering, transition the same engine […]”

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Mazda’s new LMP2-spec racer is a combination of proven technologies – Lola’s B12/80 coupe and the SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel engine from the Grand-Am GX program. Combining the two presents several challenges that SpeedSource Race Engineering and Mazda are facing head-on. They do so, however, in a rather unique environment full of unknowns. It is not […]”

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Mazda and motorsports are inexorably linked. So when the design team at Mazda North American Operations was creating some concept vehicles for the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas, it was only natural for them to include a couple of motorsports-themed iterations of its latest vehicles, the Mazda3 and the Mazda6. Each […]”

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For 10 years, the Mazda3 has been not only a great road car that can carry people and stuff with great mileage or, in the case of the MAZDASPEED version, get them there in a hurry, but it has also been a staple…

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