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Until recently and despite their popularity in other regions especially in Europe, diesel vehicles haven’t yet win Japanese consumers. This is mainly due to expenses related to the NOx emission-reducing technologies which are required for diesel engines to fulfill the nation’s stringent exhaust gas regulations.

Mazda says they have overcome this matter using its brand-new SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter turbo diesel engine that made its debut about the CX-5 crossover.

Good company, the SKYACTIV-D 2.2 could be the world’s first passenger vehicle diesel engine to secure Japan’s Post New Long-Term Emissions Regulations with no dependence on expensive nitrogen oxide (NOx) after-treatment technology.

Furthermore, Mazda claims that this CX-5 SKYACTIV-D 2.2 may be the first passenger model in the country to blend a clean diesel with the idling stop system, called i-stop, which often can restart the engine in 0.4 seconds.
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Mazda fans could be unhappy in regards to the RX-8’s demise, but the Hiroshima-based automaker includes a history of displaying received well concepts that eventually enter production, such as the RX-Evolve and the Minagi.

You can actually latest concept could be the Takeri and it’ll be unveiled with the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show on November 30. The Mazda Takeri is often a mid-size sedan that effectively provides an earlier glimpse at the Mazda6′s replacement, which is required to arrive in the market inside the first half of 2013.

Like several recent Mazda models, concept and production alike, the Takeri adopts the company’s new “KODO – Soul of Motion” design language.

If you’ve found yourself in the evening name, the Takeri incorporates a very attractive design, both in and out, with many styling cues borrowed directly from the Shinari sports sedan study.

Mazda hasn’t been very forthcoming with details, even so the company did point out that within the hood from the Takeri sits a Skyactive D diesel engine that gets several fuel-saving gizmos, including auto stop/start in addition to Mazda’s first kinetic energy recovery system.

During braking, this method captures strength that would otherwise be dissipated as heat, converts it to electricity, stores it in capacitors and uses it to power the car’s ancillary electric systems, further reducing engine consumption.

Mazda RX-9, Porsche 911 Mazda aggressively developing its technology, including next-generation car model RX-9. That said, according to international reports, sportcar uses a rotary engine that Mazda’s unique and never been used in the model RX3. In fact, the heart pacemaker is ever won the Le Mans 24 endurance race at 1991 with the Mazda 787B.

Only, rotary engine RX-9 in this brand-new environmentally friendly hybrid, while the electric motor borrowed from Toyota. The two principals last year signed a cooperation. However, a report from Motor Trend magazine America that leaked from Toyota’s just part of the electric motor. Although the hybrid, the RX-9 will continue to use gasoline engines. In fact mentioned, the possibility of rotary engine will be equipped with technology such as KERS in F1, whose function is to charge the battery when deceleration occurs.

People in the Mazda divulge that the company is more concentration on the MX-5 and SkyActiv technology that is expected to reduce exhaust gas emissions to 30 percent. “We know what we should do. We want the RX-9 as the next level and already there is a group of people working there (RX-9). Now is the priority in the new generation MX-5,” so called source of the people in the Mazda. He explained about the project that continues to the RX-9, it is possible kupe model and similar to the Mazda RX-7 older. The design may be seen from Shinari Mazda concept that offers sharp lines and creases in italics. Mazda RX-9 is likely to be released in 2013.