Gadgetory

the cx-9 and the cx-7 now mazda has got this guy the most compact of their crossovers the cx-5 first thing I noticed is kind of chiseled lines getting rid of what's been kind of an Archie loopy thing in their design language and thank you they got rid of that goofy stupid smiling face I wanted to slap the out of all the time so now it's got a more serious front and a more handsome look I'm seeing some infinity here but I'm sure they wouldn't want me to say that inside the cabins gotten more handsome as well now I can't tell you a lot about the powertrain because we're here at the European version of the vehicle which is a SKYACTIV diesel however there's another option let me show you what that is here is the gas direct injection SKYACTIV skyactiv-g they call it the key Mazda says is to get compression ratio higher you get more out of a gasoline fuel mixture therefore using less fuel to go as far as you would on more fuel it's pretty obvious stuff compressions a tricky thing them as these pistons come up and they're compressing it more and more that charge that mixture of fuel and air just wants to detonate all by itself so-called decently even before this spark plug fires so they've beaten that three ways ones is little well here on the top of the piston that they say improves combustion so the combustion happens and gets out in front of any pre detonation they've also got this interesting injector here which they say has multiple holes to spray the mixture more finely and keep it a little cooler because temperature is the enemy of high compression and finally they've designed a very high scavenging exhaust manifold here it's almost like a set of headers four into two into one and they say that draws more hot gas out of the cylinders faster all of this brings down cylinder temperature and allows you to run up compression higher without detonation or what we all know is spark knock fifteen percent improvement in efficiency and fifteen percent improvement in low-end torque they say the cx-5 is a good-looking vehicle it's got a handsome smart look that should play well in this category where they've been absent until now and it's a hot category it's one of those that comes back quickly as certain kinds of fuel economy aid from the consumers mind and eventually as the US recession comes out of its slump as well now we don't have pricing on this vehicle to see how recession friendly it's gonna be one hits the US market that's down the road aways because European introduction is sometime in 2012 with Japan and us to follow at that point we'll also know exactly what the power drains gonna look like