Having been unimpressed by the PHEV, can the new 254hp straight-six diesel make the grade?
, and I felt like a schoolteacher admonishing a child who’d just flunked an exam. And not the ne'er-do-well kid – the one blowing gum bubbles and passing rude notes around at the back of the class. One of the nice kids. The sweet one. The keen student whose work is generally up to snuff. That’s how I’d describe Mazda: a good car company that knows how to build a decent car.
And here’s why I think they’re right and everyone else is wrong. It’s a travesty that we let an emissions scandal ruin a sensible fuel type. It was primarily Volkswagen that messed up, and it’s since held its hands up and paid its dues. But there was nothing wrong with diesel per se.
I’d say that’s a win, then, and it drives better than the PHEV, too. For a start, it sounds more characterful than the four-pot petrol in the plug-in version, with a throaty, six-cylinder diesel rumble. Apparently, the lean-burn DCPCI isn’t as quiet as other compression ignition processes, and it’s definitely more raucous than. It took me back to the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, actually, and the kind of hard-edged but pleasingly purposeful tones of six-cylinder BMW diesels from that era.
There's the damping, for one thing. Who signed off on a car that’s releasing off bumps at the back end – at low speeds and right up to 70mph on the M25 – like a jack in the box? I don’t get it at all. Why make a car deliberately stiff but also under-damped? Because that’s the worst of both worlds - and it’s not just the ride comfort it screws up.
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