
- Skyactiv-Z will be a four-cylinder engine.
- It will replace both Skyactiv-G and Skyactiv-X.
- Lessons learned during development will be applied to the six-cylinder engines.
Financial news always tends to be dull. But every now and then, a car company sneaks in a nugget. Such is the case with Mazda’s latest document on how it fared in the most recent quarter. In an amalgam of boring numbers, there’s news about a gasoline engine we haven’t heard of before: Enter the Skyactiv-Z.