Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv ...

Part of the exploding connecting rod cap got lodged between the block and crank. Certain parts of an engine shouldn’t be visible from the outside. If they are, something went wrong. It’s often not ...

Japanese automakers Mazda and Toyota, among other brands, have been working hard on furthering efficiency without sacrificing performance or power. The SkyActiv engine was introduced in 2010 and ...

When Japanese automaker Mazda debuted the fourth-generation Mazda3 in 2019, it came with the brand's Skyactiv-X engine. This revolutionary powerplant combines the attributes of spark ignition and ...

Mazda has historically insisted on building its own engines in-house, starting at its Hiroshima plants in Japan and later expanding production to regional facilities in China, Mexico, and Thailand to ...

The automotive industry is rapidly moving toward a new era of downsizing and hybridizing conventional internal combustion engines, or replacing such units with all-electric alternatives. Mazda, on the ...