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With more buyers seeking solace in the great outdoors, they need vehicles capable of getting them there. That's why most automakers have taken a ruler and chisel to their beloved family haulers in hopes of capitalizing on those calls for adventure.

As long as I’ve been reading and writing about cars, Mazda has served as a sort of anti-hero counterpart to the automotive giants, namely Toyota. Like, check any comments section of any sort of news information about any given Toyota (especially hybrids) at any time between 2003 and, well, now,…

These days, we rarely get to talk about newly developed gas engines. Automakers prefer to hype up their future EVs, while internal combustion becomes little more than a footnote. But some companies are bucking the trend. Mazda defied the downsizing agenda with its gas and diesel inline-sixes, and now it’s…

Western car companies expected China to be the golden goose. The world's largest auto market was supposed to turn out cars for companies like Volkswagen and General Motors and BMW, feeding insatiable Chinese buyers until the death of the universe. Somehow, none of those companies counted on their local joint-venture…

About 60% of the 1.2m cars that drove out of the showroom last year were SUVs, but road fatalities reached a 12-year high too

Whenever I’m at a race for Autosport, the World Endurance Championship or whatever, I like to venture out on track to get a feel of what the cars are doing.

Just make plug-in hybrids! It's obvious. Simple, even. It's the solution. Read enough forums, social media posts and comments and you'll surely learn that for yourself. Automakers seem persuaded. Everyone from Ram to Chevy to Nissan is following along.

When the Mazda CX-50 debuted, most people thought it would replace the CX-5 in Mazda's lineup. However, one doesn't simply kill your best-selling vehicle without being absolutely sure people will buy the new one. Whether or not the CX-50 was originally intended to replace the CX-5 remains to be seen. But…

Ahead of last year's NASCAR’s season finale in Phoenix, my friend and fellow car nerd, Bozi Tatarevic, asked Mazda to borrow a CX-90. I borrowed another Mazda for the weekend, the CX-70, which is the CX-90’s nearly identical stablemate. (Bozi wanted to see how the engineering of these cars differed.…