Episode 196 covers the Combined Sports Car Association (CSCA) & Triumph Sports Owners Association (TSOA) track day. On the 14th June I went down to One Raceway near Goulburn to meet with the drivers and watch some track action. I recorded six interviews with Triumph, Maserati and Jaguar owners during the day whilst watching the track action - clockwise and … [Read more...]
The Mazda Toyota Twins
Badge engineering is alive and well - in the US at least. Toyota have just released information on a new Yaris hatchback for this market and it is a Toyota by name only! In all other markets it is a Mazda 2. Toyota decided that it would not be building a new Yaris for the US market because it would cost too much to deliver a small city car to a country that loves its big … [Read more...]
Mazda Launches New Diesel Engine in the US Market
This is an unusual story - a new diesel motor, not unusual in that it is a new idea, just simply because for most of the world, diesel is a dirty word, especially in many Government departments. However Mazda has bucked the green thinking and delivered a new SkyActiv-D 2.2 litre diesel engine into the US market. Fitted into a revised CX-5 Signature, the motor has been … [Read more...]
Mazda Could Revive the Rotary
Mazda recently made an announcement about its future with regards to power units. It was an announcement that helped the industry know what their plans were and how they were going to achieve them. Mazda has been one of the last manufacturers to say what they were going to do because they were seen as the last bastion of the internal combustion engine with their SkyActiv-G … [Read more...]
Flyin Miata
Ever since the car was invented, people have wanted to go faster and as engineers started to figure out ways to make cars more powerful and therefore faster, others have followed a tried and true method: take a lightweight car - typically a two seater, remove the original engine and shoehorn in a bigger one and that's usually a V8! I would say that the idea really took off … [Read more...]