The CX-5 continues to use Mazda’s 2.5-liter SkyActiv-G I4 turbo, the turbo being what gives it its juice. Lower level CX-5s ...

Mazda’s CX-5 shouldn’t be here anymore. Clearly, the somewhat larger CX-50 was designed as its successor and better suited to American tastes and girth. But when the CX-50 was introduced in 2022 as a ...

The 2025 Mazda3 outclasses and out-sports more expensive alternatives with fancier badges, but are those missing costs incurred elsewhere? Since 2019, Mazda’s bread-and-butter economy car, the Mazda3, ...

The current cream of Mazda’s engine crop is the turbocharged 2.5-liter four-cylinder available in nearly every vehicle Mazda makes and standard in one, the CX-9. In fact, the only places you might not ...

A 2021 Mazda 3 2.5 Turbo just arrived for a two-day loan and it’s time for the test Mazda fans have been anxiously awaiting. If I remember my turbocharged Mazda 3s correctly, a deep stab of the ...

What do you do when you’re a smaller auto manufacturer, but you have one big hit in the hot crossover market? Make another slightly larger version of it, right? Welcome to Mazda’s world. The Japanese ...

There comes a point in life where one becomes ready to outgrow what they have been thus far. It’s as true of automakers as it is of people, and to Mazda, that means becoming a “mature” car company, ...

When Mazda announced the 2.5-liter turbocharged Skyactiv-G engine was coming to the 3, a lot of us had the same thought: Mazdaspeed! But our hopes were dashed way back in 2016 when Mazda North ...

"You can't always get what you want," the Rolling Stones taught me, but then they also said I can't get no satisfaction, and so perhaps only half of the wisdom of an aging rock band is fully ...