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Posts classified under: Mazda
Winning Top Safety Pick+ status this year isn’t easy
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
Mazda CX-5 gains power for 2014
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
Mazda6 Skyactiv-D diesel wins at Road Atlanta
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
Mazda can do no wrong
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
“Drive Away Cancer” odyssey continues in a Miata
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
Surprise! A new Mazda3 arrives later this year
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
Mazda takes a clean-sheet approach to the 2014 Mazda6
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
Full speed ahead for Fiat/Mazda roadster
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
Where have all the small pickup trucks gone?
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
A car guy’s Christmas dream garage
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
Nominees for North American Car and Truck of the Year announced
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
More power and smarts for the CX-5
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
2014 Mazda6 goes diesel
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
Should you be worried after driving over a rock?
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
Will 2013 Mazda CX-5 Sport zooms its way to the top?
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
Next Mazda6 will get a wilder design
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
2013 Mazda MX-5 Miata Special Edition: Feisty and fun
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
The Mazda6 Wagon returns?
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
Mazda5: minivan or tall station wagon?
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
This is roadster madnessd
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
MazdaSPEED 3; hang on with both hands
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
2012 Mazda2 Touring makes small fun
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
2011 Mazda CX9: Big but doesn’t lose its zoom-zoom
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
Mazda unwraps Skyactiv, Kodo and CX-5 at Frankfurt
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
Mazda6 to move from Flat Rock to Yamaguchi
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 CX-5 crossover SUV announced
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
Mazda plans diesel push
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
















