{"id":40697,"date":"2023-01-18T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40697"},"modified":"2023-01-18T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:49:00","slug":"mazda-straight-six-bmw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=40697","title":{"rendered":"Mazda’s New Straight-Six Is a Direct BMW B58 Competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The automotive world is dangerously low on straight-sixes. At the moment, BMW is really the last bastion of hope for the inline-six engine, with Mercedes as the only other maker of said engines and even that\u2019s going to be short lived. However, we must all thank the car gods for Mazda, who\u2019s bringing its own straight-six engine to market. Not only is it bringing such an engine, it\u2019s bringing one that will be able to compete with BMW\u2019s brilliant B58<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mazda\u2019s<\/a> new engine will be a 3.3-liter turbocharged inline-six, making 340 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque in its first application, the upcoming CX-90. Sound familiar? That\u2019s because those are essentially the specs of many of BMW\u2019s B58-powered cars, give or take a few ponies and lb-ft, depending on the model. In fact, it\u2019s actually more horsepower and torque than you\u2019ll get in the B58-powered X5 and X6. Like many current B58 iterations, Mazda\u2019s new engine will also be a 48-volt mild hybrid.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no word on transmission choice yet, as the CX-90 will be officially revealed on January 31, but it\u2019s likely to be some sort of ZF-sourced automatic. Most of the world\u2019s rear-wheel drive-based cars (which the CX-90 is now) use ZF autos, so that would be my guess. Though, nothing\u2019s official just yet.<\/p>\n

According to Mazda, the new engine will provide the CX-90 with an \u201cengaging driving experience\u201d and \u201ca rewarding exhaust note.\u201d I certainly don\u2019t doubt that, as straight-sixes are lovely engines to use. What will be interesting is whether Mazda\u2019s new engine will have the refinement or high caliber exhaust note of BMW\u2019s B58. The latter of which is wonderful to use and great to listen to, so let\u2019s hope Mazda\u2019s can do the same.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if Mazda uses the straight-six on different cars, such as a new Mazda 6. That would be an incredible car, one that offers a BMW-like combination of a rear-wheel drive chassis and straight-six, just at a lower cost.<\/p>\n

However it turns out, though, Mazda should be applauded for even doing such a thing. During a time when most automakers are stopping the development of new engines, in favor of electrification, Mazda is not only spending money to make a new engine but it\u2019s using an aging (albeit beloved) configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The automotive world is dangerously low on straight-sixes. At the moment, BMW is really the last bastion of hope for the inline-six engine, with Mercedes as the only other maker of said engines and even that\u2019s going to be short lived. However, we must all thank the car gods for Mazda, who\u2019s bringing its own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}