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Let’s hope my cx-30’s cylinder deactivation doesn’t ruin it
One thing to note. You’d never see a CVT (poor reliability/listless to drive), on a Mazda. The Mazda engineers were very wise enough, not to join the “CVT Bandwagon” (i.e. Nissan, Subaru, Honda, etc).
I mean CVTs are incredibly reliable if they’re in a Honda or a Toyota. This is a room temperature IQ take at best to treat CVT as a bogeyman lol
I’m glad they don’t use CVTs but I wish they just used the ZF8 on the new RWD platform. It’s proven and dead reliable. They instead made their own transmission which isn’t as good and probably cost a lot to develop.
I’m about as big a Mazda fan as any if you guys have read my posts. I’m constantly defending them where it matters. But this article’s a big load of fluff. There are no artisans with robes and hair buns lovingly assembling the car or hand crafting an inspection guide sheet in the QC Dept.
They’re a mass manufacturing car company like any other. I’ve engineered mass manufacturing components for commercial industry that involved tens of thousands of components a year, consumer that’s millions of components, and medtech that makes implants for a single person. It’s all the same. There are a set of regulations and guidelines and if you do your job right, they will all statistically come out according to spec.
Where it always goes wrong is leadership driving things the right way for the bottom line.