Mazda 3 skyactiv

[tjts1]

The most interesting bit is the exhaust manifold on the skyactive engine.

http://www.autozine.org/technical_school/engine/Ignition_Compression.html#Skyactiv-G

Or do we have to inject a level of gov't hate into EVERY thread.

Well yeah. Didn't they teach you that the government is the root of all evil in right wing nut job 101?

[CarsSuck]

That motor is also massively undersquare, especially compared with the regular 2 liter and that helps the MPGs.

[Kershaw]

undersquare? what is this, i dont even.

[Conki]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_ratio#Square.2C_undersquare_and_oversquare_engines

[JrCamacho]

Good read on engines, thanks!

[CarsSuck]

That wiki page kind of sucks. Over square engines are known to make better torque and are more thermodynamically efficient. I don't know all the specifics, but nothing of that nature is mentioned in that article.

[imsotyerred]

That wiki page kind of sucks. Over square engines are known to make better torque and are more thermodynamically efficient. I don't know all the specifics, but nothing of that nature is mentioned in that article.

it's fucking wikipedia...at its best it can really only be used as a jumping off point

[Sagaris]

The problem with cars these days is that they are so blasted expensive! I bought a 2012 Versa a couple weeks ago for 15,500 out the door which is just about as cheap as a new car gets. I could have had an Aveo for a little more coin (and why would anyone do that?!?!). I saw a loaded up Focus at the Ford dealer with a sticker price of 27k, wtf!

So far I am averaging 37.6 MPG with the Versa in mostly city driving. After running the numbers it will cost the same amount of money to drive to 100k miles than an $8000 Accord with 100k miles on it to begin with.

What does the new Mazda cost?

[mrsleeve]

And people showed they didn't want to drive around rattly-tin cans either.

People demand nav, sound deadening, much, much higher crash impact standards, etc.

That was also the FED Via the D.O.T. mandating lots of heavy and costly safe requirements remember? And yes there are many people that want to drive around beer cans, look at all the fools buying up Prius's's'sssss Focus's's'sss, Mazda 3's and similar sub compacts.

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Or do we have to inject a level of gov't hate into EVERY thread.

In things that warrant it maybe ;)