[TheAntiDoomer]

http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/105 ... n-electric

The U.S. is just getting its first taste of the funky Mazda2, a car that has helped rewrite the rulebook on affordable hatchbacks by showing that cheap doesn’t have to mean drab and boring to drive. However, the next-generation of Mazda’s global small car is currently in the works and is set for debut in Japan as early as the first half of next year.

There’s no word on when this version of the Mazda2 will finally reach the U.S. but when it does we can reveal that it will return a fuel economy of 70 mpg--without the aid of any electric motors. This is because the car will feature Mazda’s next-generation of drivetrain, body and chassis technologies, dubbed SKYACTIV

[Keith_McClary]

Next Mazda 2 Will Have New Fuel-Economy Technology

4:51 p.m. | Updated An earlier version of this post said the next Mazda 2 would get 70 miles per gallon. A Mazda spokesman clarified late on Thursday that the result was achieved from the Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States.
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The Mazda release said the car would achieve 70 miles per gallon, but that number was based on the Japanese test cycle, meaning American mileage would be lower. A 15 percent increase from the existing Mazda 2 would result in a combined 37 m.p.g. (For comparison, the Toyota Prius, which gets a combined 50 m.p.g. from the Environmental Protection Agency, achieves 89 m.p.g. in the Japanese test.)

"hype-r-miling"
I can't find "hype-r-miling" in Google - have I coined a new word?

[americandream]

Like all the other test cycles, these fcukkers get to make a quick buck by selling us stuff we don't need, we in turn get deeper into the cycle of consumerism, trashing the planet in the process.

The trouble with economies like Japan is that they are so far in depending on selling gobshite, they will push any old bollix to fool the shopping drones.