Mentioning the Mazda brand can be described as both love and hate. As Japan's fourth-largest automobile manufacturer, Mazda is much different in size and sales than Toyota, Honda and Nissan. However, Mazda, known as "Toei BMW", relies on its own excellent strength and persistent car-making attitude, and has achieved the ultimate pursuit of the driving and handling of each car, but its paranoid personality is obviously out of the trend of automobile development, I don't know how many consumers are willing to pay for it?
Looking at today's automotive market, small displacement and electrification process have become the main development trends, whether it is large and small car companies, or low, medium and high models, are basically trying to move closer to this aspect. When all manufacturers are scratching their heads in the increasingly stringent emission reduction trend, most of them are finally committed to the development of hybrid and pure electric models, and Mazda, as a "technical house", pushes a six-cylinder internal combustion engine!
I believe that friends familiar with Mazda for Mazda SKYACTIV-X compression engine will not be too strange, this is the combination of gasoline engine and diesel engine, to create an engine, in the power performance output parameters and fuel economy have a greater point of view. As far as the 2.0L engine is concerned, the Engine can output up to 180 horsepower, and the official fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is about 5.2L.
The in-line six-cylinder engine launched this time applies all the technology of the SKYACTIV-X engine. At the same time, in order to further optimize the volume, the exhaust gases in each cylinder in the cylinder head can be collected by improving the exhaust part of the engine, and such cylinder heads do not use separate exhaust manifolds, thus reducing the engine size very well. Overall, Mazda's inline six-cylinder engine is designed to be lightweight, taking into account fuel consumption while maintaining strong power.
In such an era of electrification, Mazda is still obsessed with launching a six-cylinder engine, in addition to reflecting better performance and handling, perhaps because it has a "high-end dream" hidden in the heart. According to confirmed news, the Mazda inline six-cylinder engine will be the first to be installed on its own high-end flagship model, and the new generation of Mazda CX-50 has been confirmed, in addition, it will also be devolved to the new generation of Artez models, and with the Aisin 8AT gearbox.
Mazda's strategic style can definitely be regarded as a "clear stream" in the automobile manufacturing industry, and people were not optimistic about the rotor engine at the beginning, but Mazda still insisted on research and development for decades. Even, folk rumors ridicule Mazda's paragraph, saying that it "makes cars to make money, make money to study rotor engines, study rotor engines without money, and continue to build cars", which makes the bucket car brother have to admire, Mazda's spirit of being extremely enthusiastic about technology research and development and daring to challenge.
Obviously, in mazda's style, do what others don't have, the previous rotor engine is like this, and the current SKYACTIV-X engine is also like this. However, this time the technical house is no longer paranoid, it is understood that Mazda's 6-cylinder machine uses the latest technology, there will be better fuel economy, but this is not for Mazda, which has not been known for "space", it will also be a big problem to carry a Mazda inline six-cylinder engine.
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Nowadays, luxury brands like BMW, in order to cater to energy-saving and emission-reduction policies, have gradually shifted the focus of research and development from the fuel engine to the electrification route, and the new BMW 5 Series, 7 Series, X1, etc. will launch pure electric versions in the future. In order to enhance the brand value, Mazda, which is also known as "Dongying BMW", has seriously built a six-cylinder engine, and it seems that it is going to replace all its high-end models with six-cylinder models.
If nothing else, the next generation of Mazda 6 will first feature a new in-line six-cylinder engine, and the new Mazda 6 product will rise to a new height. Perhaps the future competitors are no longer the Models of accord and Camry. But this "reverse development", by improving performance to improve brand value, in a word, it is not an easy task, this campaign strategy is still full of challenges for Mazda.