Toyota's To Start Using Mazda's Skyactiv Engine In New Sub-Compact Model

Toyota Motor Corp. will add Mazda’s fuel-efficient Skyactiv engine to its tiny stable of borrowed powerplants when it sources a new Mazda2-based subcompact from Mazda’s just-opened assembly plant here.

The car will get Toyota-designed sheet metal on the outside but Mazda’s high-compression, fuel-injected Skyactiv gasoline engine under the hood, said Keishi Egawa, CEO of Mazda’s operations in Mexico and director of its plant here.

“They will make model-specific investment for the Toyota vehicle,” Egawa said in an interview at last month’s factory opening. “Stamping, dies -- that is theirs,” he said, as well as “some of the interior design work.” But the Toyota spinoff will use “our engine,” he said.

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MattDarringer - 3/6/2014 7:18:40 PM

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Why doesn't Toyota come up with its own goofy name like Skyactive or Earth Dreams to convey that their engines pass emissions. Mazda's Skyactive "technology" is hardly a leap forward.

MrEE - 3/6/2014 7:48:36 PM

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Current Mazda tech is exceptional in terms of best in class MPG. The Mazda3 and Mazda6 are an examples where only hybrids can beat the Mazda. The Mazda even matches up with the Cruise and Jetta diesels.

It should soon be interesting in the small Japaneses models (Fit, Mazda2, Yaris replacement) with production shift for high cost Japan to Mexico.

MattDarringer - 3/7/2014 7:31:18 PM

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Unfortunately that economy does NOT play out in the real world.