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The facelifted Mazda Demio  (known overseas as the Mazda2) with the SKYACTIV-G 1.3 gasoline engine, together with its development team, has received the 2011-2012 Car Technology of the Year award from the Japan Automotive Hall of Fame (JAHFA). The Mazda Demio 13-SKYACTIV was launched in Japan in June 2011. The result was announced today by JAHFA, a registered nonprofit organization ...

Today, Mazda Motor Corporation announced that the new SKYACTIV-G 1.3 direct-injection engine has been named the 2012 Automotive Researchers’ and Journalists’ Conference of Japan (RJC) Technology of the Year. The SKYACTIV-G 1.3 engine is available in the new Mazda Demio (also known as Mazda2) in the Japanese market. RJC chairman, Hiroshi Fukunaga, announced the award after the final round of ...

Mazda announced that the Skyactiv-G 1.3 direct-injection gasoline engine will debut on the facelifted Demio (known as the Mazda2 outside JDM) in Japan on May 18-20 at Tokyo’s Automotive Engineering Exposition. Mazda aims to increase its global fleet fuel efficiency by 30% by 2015 via its Skyactiv technologies.   The 1.3-liter engine features a record high compression ratio of 14:1 ...