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SKYACTIV. The future of cars according to Mazda – Driven.

You only have to drive a 20-year-old car to realise how much better cars are today.

A Sierra felt pretty good in 1991. But compared to today’s Mondeo it feels almost prehistoric.

So what will tomorrow’s cars feel like?

To find out, we’ve been driving some prototypes.

But first a word about exactly what we were driving.

Most new cars are not completely new.

Manufacturers almost always offer one new thing at a time: a new body, a new suspension system, a new engine, a new transmission. Maybe, if you’re lucky, two out of the four.

Almost never a completely new car with completely new suspension and completely new engines and completely new transmissions.

With its SKYACTIV programme, Mazda is the exception to this rule. Instead of redeveloping bits and pieces, it has redeveloped the entire car. And, rather than merely offer a few special SKYACTIV models, it is applying SKYACTIV technology to its entire range.

Every manufacturer is also striving to reduce its corporate average CO2. Renault does it with four electric models and an excellent all-new diesel engine. Toyota does it with hybrids. So does GM. PSA will be offering hybrids and a sprinkling of small electric models. Mercedes and BMW are experimenting with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Honda and Hyundai/KIA have both hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Everyone, it seems, is fitting stop-start systems and regenerative alternators.

Instead of taking those routes, Mazda is first looking at how it can reduce the CO2 and improve the economy of its entire range of cars, while improving rather than sacrificing their drivability.

New body structures to save weight without losing strength, new suspension systems that improve both ride and handling, new engines that are both more powerful and more fuel efficient, new transmissions that save fuel and are more fun to drive.

Every single major component has been re-thought to provide maximum driving pleasure with minimum environmental impact.

We were fortunate enough to be invited to drive and comment on the results.

For a basic Mazda 6 size car, Mazda development engineers have managed to cut the body weight by 8%, yet at the same time make it 30% more rigid and even safer in a crash.

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