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From a company that once took a near-fatal flier on the revolutionary rotary engine, Mazda is winning kudos for the down-to-the-minutia modifications it’s making to the conventional reciprocating piston-based technology that powers models such as the new 2014 Mazda6.
And, also for adding unconventional new features, such as a clever new take on meeting today’s vehicle’s increasing electrical demands while improving fuel economy, with i-ELOOP, a technological alley-oop into the future.
To the too-bold visionaries at Mazda in the late 1960s – just as it was making its debut in Canada and then the United States – the compact, lightweight rotary seemed like just the thing to power their company into the future. But, within a few years, the engine’ too-thirsty and unreliable revolving rotors almost augured Mazda into a fiscal spin from which it barely recovered.
Mazda went on to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a rotary racer, and created one of the world’s great sports cars in the RX-7. But since the early 1970s, it has focused on piston power to propel a succession of models that have won it a reputation as a maker of cars enjoyed by people who take their motoring more seriously than most.
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