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2014 MAZDA6

Mazda’s All-New Sedan Brings New Flavor to Mid-Size Segment

The mid-size sedan can be considered the bread-and-butter vehicle of the automotive industry.  It’s not too big, not too small, but just right.  With seating for five passengers, it’s more practical than a sports car but not overly bulky when compared to large SUVs.  Pricing is well within the value-minded reach of the majority of the car-buying public and fuel economy will not raise the ire of Mother Nature.  The vehicle is nearly perfect but for one catch: it is automotive vanilla.

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Over the years, as practical and precise as the mid-size sedan has become for consumers as their go-to daily-driving, people-moving, stuff-packing do-it-all-on-wheels, its personality has fallen by the wayside.  Design has become mundane, dynamics have become slushy and “mid-size sedan” has become synonymous with dull, run-of-the-mill, routine ho-hum.  For everything the mid-size sedan offers, what it lacks is desire.  And then there is the all-new 2014 Mazda6.

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Fuel efficient?  Check.  Competitively priced?  Check.  Dynamic handling?  Check.  Style?  Check.  Fun?  Uh huh.  Real?  Absolutely.  As the second production vehicle to feature the full suite of SKYACTIV®[1] technologies, the 2014 Mazda6 should not be confused with mythical creatures like the griffin, jackalope, Bigfoot or a freewheeling Pegasus.  On sale now, this third-generation Mazda6 will feature even more all-new groundbreaking Mazda-engineered technology.  i-ELOOP, the world’s first capacitor-based brake energy regeneration system to power all the vehicle’s electrical systems, makes its global debut, along with the SKYACTIV-D 2.2-liter clean diesel engine and the front collision-detecting Smart City Brake Support (SCBS) system make their first appearance in North America.   A mid-size sedan, yes.  Vanilla?  Mazda engineers aren’t familiar with bland.

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