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Mazda brings new diesel engines in Mazda 2 in June

Mazda2 - Click above for a complete gallery Mazda announced last fall it would be phasing out the current 1.4-liter diesels in the Mazda2 hoods with new 1.6-liter units. Starting in June, the new 1.6-liter will be available in the 2. This is the same powertrain found at the 2's larger sibling, the Mazda3, but this is the 90hp version, which is 22 hp more powerful than the previous unit. Torque is also increased, it goes from 160 Nm at 2,000 rpm to 212 at 1,750, quite an increase. Fuel consumption stays the same at 4.2 l/100 km (56mpg) and ... Read more →

Canada to get the Mazda2 within a year Sam Abuelsamid

Toronto's Globe and Mail is reporting that Canadian car buyers will soon have a new small car option available when Mazda introduces it's B-segment 2. The little 2 shares its underpinnings with ...

Mazda2 may come to America after all Sam Abuelsamid

When the new Mazda2 debuted at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show many of us were disappointed to learn that it probably would not be coming to the US market. Times have changed, though, and It now looks ...

Mazda places second in World MPG Marathon Jeremy Korzeniewski

Toyota is rightfully proud of the fact that it managed to achieve the highest specific average fuel economy during the recent World MPG Marathon with a diesel-powered Yaris. In fact, the automaker ...

Upping the zoom: Mazda 2 gets more powerful diesel option Xavier Navarro

If you think that 68hp for the Mazda 2 1.4-liter diesel isn't enough power, here's good news: Mazda has announced that the 2 will get the 1.6-liter 90hp diesel that you can find in the Fiesta, ...

Mazda2 could impact Mazda3 sales. And? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We aren't automotive executives, we just play them on the internet. If we were the real thing, one of our first decisions would be to get all the great small cars that are offered overseas into American showrooms. One of those small cars would undoubtedly be the Mazda2. Sales numbers in Europe ...

Mazda technology to help cut down the use of plastic in cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The next time you open your door and get in your car, take note of the amount of plastic that makes up your vehicle. Chances are, if it was made in the last fifty years at least, that there is a bunch of plastic there. And, the future only promises ever-increasing use of the easily-molded and ...

Prices and models of the new Ford Fiesta are announced 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ford has everything ready to start selling the new Fiesta in Europe next Fall. Prices start at €11,700 for gasoline variants, and €13,700 for diesels (prices shown are for the French market). If you want 5 doors instead of 3, you have to add €500 to the sticker price. Six different ...

Mazda2 three-door and diesel now waiting for European buyers 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The new Mazda2 has been a sport success for Mazda, selling almost 40,000 copies as of April since hitting the showrooms last October. A three-door version (above) was announced back in January and is now available to European customers. A 1.4 litre diesel engine is now also an option across the ...

Mazda announces Mazda2 diesel prices for the UK 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We've been keeping an eye on the new Mazda2 for a while, and our UK readers can now start calculating just how badly they might want to drive one of these little cars. Mazda has announced that the common-rail turbo diesel-engined Mazda2s will start at £9,499 (on-the-road) for the lower-end ...

Mazda demonstrates that small lightweight cars be safe too 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The doors stay intact and functional When Mazda introduced their new B-class car, the Mazda2, earlier this year one of the most interesting technical aspects of the car was that the company bucked the seemingly irreversible trend of making new models bigger and heavier. The new car is more than 200 ...

Mazda2 sedan to debut at Guangzhou Motor Show 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We first got our first official look at the new Mazda2 mini-car last March at the Geneva Motor Show. This week at the Guangzhou Motor Show in China, Mazda is taking the wraps off of a sedan version of the new car. The sedan version will be built at the Changan Ford Mazda plant in Nanjing, but it's ...

What a novel idea, reducing wieght! The new Mazda2 gets lighter 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

While most cars and trucks have been getting progressively heavier over the last three decades, Mazda is making a concerted effort to turn that around. In designing the new Mazda2 they focused on weight as one of the ways to improve fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. They managed to ...

Now available: Mazda2, the Demio, goes on sale in Japan 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Featuring cars one step up from a minicar, the Japanese subcompact segment was once Mazda's turf. Recently, the company has lost ground to Toyota and Honda in that category, but hopes that today's introduction of the new Demio (known as the Mazda2 elsewhere), will be the spark that brings sales ...

New Mazda2 pricing announced 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Prices and standard equipment for the New Mazda2 were announced today. At first, Mazda will be keeping the diesel versions for themselves - they'll be available a few months following the petrol versions' debut on Sept. 8. The low-end gas drinkers will be £8,499 (OTR), and that money will get ...

New official pics of the Mazda2 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We already know a lot about the new Mazda2 (see links below) and its forthcoming Ford cousin, but Mazda released a new batch of pictures a the B-segment's full specs this week, so it only seems fair to pass them along. The press release is after the jump, and you can see the photo gallery by ...

Japanese-market Mazda2 gets new Miller cycle engine 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo for a gallery of high-res images of the new Mazda2 Mazda recently started production of the new Mazda2 that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show and one of the new engines available in the car will be a 1.3L Miller-cycle engine which would be more accurately called an Atkinson cycle ...

First Mazda 2 rolling out of the assembly line in June 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

4 cm (1 1/2 inches) shorter and 100 kg (220 pounds) lighter than its predecessor, production on the new Mazda 2 has started in Japan. The car, developed together with Ford, will be assembled in Mazda's plant near Hiroshima for the Japanese market, branded as Mazda Demio and at the end of the year ...

Changan Ford Mazda plant in Nanjing will make the all-new Mazda2 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The all-new Mazda2 (see story on the car's debut here) will be made for the Chinese market at the Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Co. plant in Nanjing, China, Ford announced today. The Nanjing-produced Mazda2 model has been "specifically developed ... to suit the tastes of the Chinese market," but ...

Geneva Motor Show: 2008 Mazda2 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo for a gallery of high-res images of the new Mazda2 A pile of new images of the new Mazda2 have turned up. The new 2 will be making its debut at the Geneva Motor Show this week, and will also be forming the basis of the new Ford B-class car that will be coming to the US market ...

Could the Escort be reborn as the new small Ford? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Earlier this week Ford President of the Americas confirmed in an internal webcast that the new B-Class Ford for North America and the rest of the world will be based on the new Mazda2. The next question of course is what to call the new sub-compact? Ford could spend their limited resources trying to ...

New Mazda3 2.0 liter diesel set for Geneva unveiling 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We've covered news of the Mazda2 and Mazda's Hakaze concept car, both of which are set to be unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show. The third car that will get Mazda's open-the-curtain treatment is the new Mazda3 Here's all that Mazda is saying about the Mazda3 for now: "The new 2.0-litre Mazda3 diesel ...

Geneva Preview: New Mazda 2 has its coming out party 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo for a high-res image of the new Mazda2, suitable for wall-paper Mazda will be taking the wraps off the all-new Mazda2 at the Geneva Motor Show in a few weeks and they just released the first official photo. This isn't just a new B-Class model for Mazda however, as the platform of ...


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