2008 Mazda3 Diesel
July 12, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Mazda Australia have confirmed Diesel powered Mazda3s will make their way to showrooms come September. The new 2.0-litre turbo diesel Mazda3 will sit along side the Mazda6 diesel which arrived in 2006.
With the Mazda3/6 being so compatible with each other (the MPS variants both use the same 2.3-litre turbo engine), the diesel engine will also be shared.
With 105kWs of power and a massive 360Nm of torque, the new Mazda3 diesel (available in both Sedan and Hatch variants) will consume around 6L/100kms, the Mazda6 diesel uses 6.9L/100kms.
Mazda released this video to explain the basics of a Diesel powered engine:
Mazda expects the Diesel variant to only account for around 3.5% of overall sales, with a target figure of around 100 diesels per month. Despite the low estimates, with 16-inch wheels, a rear spoiler and DSC (Mazda’s version of ESP) all available as standard, we think Mazda are downplaying the cars importance.
Mazda says there are currently no plans to import Diesel powered variants of any other models.
Interested in the new Mazda3 Diesel? You can register your interest here.
A senior Mazda product manager also denied our earlier report that the Mazda2 MPS (MPS 2) will make its way to Australia in the next few years.
Source: The Courier Mail.
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PRIMO!
No auto tranny, thankyou but no thanks
Not a class leading diesel engine either
Heavy on fuel v the euro diesels
Simple buy a Golf
FAIL
Cheers
O/A
Still class-leading torque- 360Nm,
shame there is no auto, but Mazda are doing better than any other Japanese car maker by actually offering a diesel engine.
I don’t know where the fuel economy figures were sourced from, but the economy stated for the 6 sure isn’t the offical ADR81/01 figures. The ADR combined figure for the 6 Diesel is acutally 5.9L/100km and not 6.9. Strangely though figures bandied around so far for the 3 diesel state the same figue, so it will be interesting to see once it has finally done the ADR test. Then again the 3 isn’t much smaller/lighter than the 6. :-)
I’ve just ordered my mazda3 diesel hatch, while i did consider the german opposition, the excellent handling dynamics, quality and value are hard to pass up. I’ve had several new mazda’s in the past 10 years and all have been great cars.