Having just announced that they will be licensing hybrid technology from Toyota, it is clear that Mazda has never had any real desire to develop its own hybrid platform. But Mazda has always been good at engine development, and regardless of what our distant future looks like, nearly everyone agrees that the combustion engine will be with us for a long time… and there is still a lot of improvement to be made to them.
Enter Mazda stage left. At the New York Auto Show, Mazda unveiled two new engines and a transmission it claims will increase the fuel efficiency and lower the emissions of its cars dramatically by 2015. Not only that, Mazda says they will introduce a diesel engine to the US in 2012.