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olume car makers no longer seem to believe that bigger-capacity combustion engines have any place in smaller cars. Save, perhaps, for one.
Always an advocate of a sophisticated, multi-solution approach to decarbonisation, Mazda has been quietly running in the opposite direction to many of its peers when it comes to powertrain strategy. In 2022, it introduced a medium-sized SUV, the CX-60, with a brand-new, six-cylinder turbo diesel engine. And the same year, when rivals were announcing threecylinder turbo alternatives, it added a 2.5-litre four-cylinder atmospheric petrol option to its big-selling CX-5.