Japanese automakers Mazda and Toyota, among other brands, have been working hard on furthering efficiency without sacrificing performance or power. The SkyActiv engine was introduced in 2010 and ...

Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U.S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background ...

Mazda has raised the prices of its CX-5 and CX-3 SUVs, among other models as part of increases across the range for 2026. Mazda’s two most popular models have seen price hikes, with the CX-5 up $500, ...

Here's a modified RX-7 that's completely insane. It has a four-rotor engine, twin turbos, and a six-speed manual transmission from a Lamborghini. The vintage-inspired bodywork is wild, but that's just ...

Traditionally, offering a smaller engine in a particular make or model has been a manufacturer’s way of stripping a few dollars out of the price-tag. In the case of the ute market, that’s more often ...

Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...

As a long-standing member of the tribe known as Save the Manuals!—some would say long-standing enough to be its elder statesman—I'm always chuffed to learn of a car that offers a gearbox requiring you ...

How weird and wonderful is the rotary engine, with its rebellious "why can't we do it like this" approach to automotive engineering? The rotary represents a compact, smooth, and quite mechanically ...

We live in a world where even performance icons like BMW M and Audi RS models aren’t immune to ballooning curb weights and missing manual transmissions. And as regulations continue to tighten and ...

Known as the Mazda Axela in Japan, the Mazda 3 compact has provided an alternative to the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla since 2003. The model was last redesigned for 2019 and for 2022 is available as ...