This coveted award as the innovative spirit of Mazda and price / performance ratio of the outstanding new Mazda6.
The Mazda6 was crowned 'Car of the Year 2013 Swiss. " This coveted title was awarded by a jury of ten automotive professionals. Of 42 new models originally selected, these experts have selected ten first. Then, after a day of testing at the center of TCS Betzholz, the Mazda6 received points from all members of the jury, even picking up 10 points twice and ending the race the highest step of the podium, with a comfortable lead over her princesses, Adam Opel and VW Golf.
The title of "Car of the Year 2013 Swiss" does not reward only the design universally appreciated and price / performance ratio of the outstanding Mazda6, but also and especially the innovative spirit of Mazda, a brand that focuses on solutions unconventional move in the direction of progress. After the CX-5, the Mazda6 is the second model in fact benefiting from the technology SkyActiv, which reduces fuel consumption and emissions dramatically without resorting to "downsizing."
The manufacturer of Hiroshima cultivates a pioneering spirit forever. It took a lot of courage and perseverance to put one point the famous engine "rotary" invented in the fifties by German engineer Felix Wankel, and equip a sports-prototype - the Mazda 787B - who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1991. Launching the Miata - MX-5 alias - in 1989, Mazda was also behind the revival of small sports convertibles affordable, such that the English had their specialty, but was in decline since the seventies .
More recently, Mazda was the first manufacturer to make really aware of the need to lighten cars to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. The current Mazda2, launched in 2007, in fact weighed a hundred pounds less than its predecessor, an example followed by other manufacturers since, not less.
The Mazda6, it also uses advanced technologies simple and efficient to be even lighter, less greedy, safer and cleaner than its predecessors. A result that Mazda got without ever losing sight of a core value driving pleasure!
SKYACTIV Technology includes: engines, transmissions, chassis and body
i-ACTIVSENSE: the eyes of the Mazda6 for active safety
i-ELOOP: energy recovery system
i-STOP: start-stop system smart
Source: Mazda Switzerland
