Well, it’s a agent adaptation of the Mazda CX-7, one of the sportier and better-looking crossovers on the market. Of course, this agent isn’t accessible in the U.S., area the CX-7 is awash with a agog 2.3-liter turbo four—it’s alternate as low as 14 mpg all-embracing in our hands—or a artlessly aspirated 2.5-liter four, the closing accepting been added for 2010. In Europe, the low ammunition abridgement of the gas turbo archetypal renders it about unsellable. The aggregation could accept added that artlessly aspirated 2.5 i SV archetypal to the Euro calendar in an attack to woo added buyers, but it instead went with a allegiant Continental formula: the diesel. And so was built-in the clumsily called Mazda CX-7 2.2 MZR-CD, which uses a 2.2-liter four-cylinder turbo-diesel. This was apparently a astute choice; the 2.5 is absolutely alone thrifty on paper, back it has to be awkward to the max to get the five-passenger crossover to move with any alacrity.
The acceptable account is that ammunition abridgement takes a huge jump. The U.S.-spec 2.3-liter turbo four—lifted from the Mazdaspeed 3 but with a altered tune—is rated at 17 mpg burghal and 23 mpg artery with all-wheel drive and 18/25 with front-wheel drive. The turbo-diesel, by contrast, has a accumulated appraisement of 31 mpg in the European cycle, and we accept you can realistically apprehend 26 mpg in accustomed driving. The CX-7 2.5 i SV is rated at 20/28 mpg.
The agent additionally is able with a careful catalytic abridgement arrangement for abbreviation emissions. A four-gallon catchbasin holds an AdBlue urea/water solution, which is again injected into the bankrupt after of the soot-collecting chapped filter, and the circuitous and cher technology around eliminates oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions. Although the arrangement isn’t all-important to accommodated the austere Euro 5 regulations, Mazda added it anyway. Very nice.
