Happy Mother’s Day! Fyidriving would like to send best wishes to all of the great mothers out there, especially the ones who raised well-rounded car enthusiasts. The care and feeding … Read more →

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) added a new top category for their safety picks, making bragging rights a bit tougher. The IIHS tests rate vehicles from good, acceptable, … Read more →

For all its life to date, the Mazda CX-5 (formerly known as the Tribute) has been a virtual clone of the Ford Escape. Among small SUVs and crossovers, that’s not … Read more →

The diesel-powered Mazda6 that debuted almost untested earlier this year has done a lot of growing up in the few short weeks that have passed, and it’s paid off. Mazda’s Skyactiv-D … Read more →

Japan-based Mazda is just now reporting its first profit in the last five fiscal years. The automaker has obviously been in a heck of a slump, but, along with a … Read more →

In 2011, John Nikas hopped into a beat-up, unrestored 1953 Austin-Healey 100 sports car and drove it from California to the East Coast and back again in an effort to … Read more →

Hard on the taillights of the mid-size Mazda6 sedan launch, Fyidriving.com’s far-east sources have revealed some tidbits concerning the fall arrival of the third-generation 2014 Mazda3 sedan and wagon. Sadly, … Read more →

The Mazda6 is a sporty family sedan, and always has been. This car snatched the affordable sports-sedan mantle from the Nissan Maxima sometime around 2005 and hasn’t looked back since. … Read more →

Not many details have emerged since Mazda and Chrysler-controlling Fiat announced they were jointly planning to build a sports car in much the same way Toyota and Subaru came out … Read more →

Q: Why are small pickup trucks vanishing from the market? I’ve owned Rangers and others for years and love them. Now the only ones available are the Nissan, Toyota and … Read more →

With the Christmas season upon us, Fyidriving’s top management asked me to ponder the new cars I’d put on my Christmas list if Santa were to send me a text … Read more →

As 2012 winds down, the industry looks forward to 2013…but not with one last glance back. The first rounds of voting are done and we have the top six nominees … Read more →

One of fyidriving’s favorite cars is the Mazda CX-5 tall wagon.  It looks great, offers crisp handling and provides plenty of space for a wide variety of cargo. The only … Read more →

Mazda unveiled an all-new Mazda6 at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The sexy, KODO-design influenced lines and entertaining performance are no surprise–but the announcement that the Mazda6 will be available … Read more →

Q: I ran over a large rock while turning down an alley near my house and the car, a 2002 Mazda, hung up on it. AAA came and jacked up … Read more →

Who would’ve believed Mazda would apply zoom zoom to small crossover utes? In the $22,000 model tested, there was — gasp, a manual transmission attached to an engine that seemed … Read more →

Fyidriving.com has been busy ferreting out the lowdown on Mazda’s upcoming 2014 Mazda6 sedan. He has always wondered why the outgoing version never sold in greater numbers. After all, the … Read more →

This car is so much a British roadster in its appeal, capability and driving fun that I almost wish it would prove its heritage by breaking down every week or … Read more →

Friends of Fyidriving.com over at the Hiroshima, Japan-based car company posted some shots of the 2013 Mazda6 wagon prior to its Paris Motor Show debut. To this gumshoe’s weary orbs, … Read more →

Most cars don’t call their own identity into question, but the Mazda 5 is not most cars. Some people say that sliding doors on the side of a vehicle identify … Read more →

Fyidriving.com is fascinated by the fact that two very unlike car companies, Mazda and Fiat, will collaborate to produce a sports car that will launch in about three years. Fiat’s … Read more →

I have to ask, would my reaction to the velocity red mica 2012 MazdaSPEED 3 have been different if my age were closer to 20 than to 60? The boosting … Read more →

The Mazda2 Touring is a sub-compact that doesn’t really feel like one when you’re riding in it, but does when you look at it. That’s because it uses the space … Read more →

Mazda’s CX-9 is a large crossover that hit the streets in 2007, early in the era of financial difficulties we’re currently experiencing.  Surprisingly, it was what people in this segment … Read more →

Over the years, Mazda’s been the innovator in breakthrough technology producing revolutio nary new engines designs like the rotary and the Miller Cycle engine.  While neither engine efforts have produced … Read more →

Mazda confirmed that production of the current midsize sedan, the Mazda6, will be pulled from the U.S. at the end of the current model cycle, which could be sometime in … Read more →

Mazda announced a new compact crossover SUV for its 2012 lineup, called the CX-5. It fits into the bottom of the current naming scheme, which already includes the larger CX-7 … Read more →

Every car company is looking for a way to cut fuel consumption, even some automakers you’d never expect to see in hybrids or diesels. Case in point: Mazda’s product plans. … Read more →