Mazda likes to do things differently, and I’m a big admirer of its engineers who think outside the box.
The world downsizes engines so 1.0-litre three-cylinder motors are commonplace even in large cars. Mazda sticks a 1.6-litre unit in its small cars theorising a bigger engine doesn’t have to work as hard, so uses less fuel. Which in practice works.
And here we are again. In the week news breaks that the EU will allow new cars powered by internal combustion engines after 2035, if they can be run on sustainable fuels, we are driving a Mazda fitted with a new diesel engine. That’s right, a DIESEL. It gets better, too: the engine fitted to this CX-60 SUV isn’t something straightforward like a 2.0-litre four-cylinder, it is a 3.3-litre straight-six engine.
