![]() In short, Mazda’s been busy inside the engine. Japanese engineers simply don’t have ‘yeah, that’ll do’ in their vocabulary. Think of the decade-long gestation of the mighty Lexus LFA. Think of the million versions of Nissan GT-R. It’s typical Japanese culture to endlessly tweak and optimise a machine until it’s so hyper-evolved it’s almost sentient. Mazda being Mazda, it couldn’t leave the SkyActiv-X engine alone. It wasn’t until recently that processors could do the maths at the speed required to manage the engine’s ignition schizophrenia and prevent it detonating all over the inside of your garage. ![]() Engineers told us the theory had been perfected much sooner, but it had to wait on the drawing board for computer tech to catch up. Mazda finally got this system into production in 2019.
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