Mazda six 2016 | fresh car sales price
The Mazda6 origins go back almost thirty years to the Mazda six hundred twenty six medium-size sedan. A nomenclature switch to its present form accompanied its repositioning as the company’s flagship in 2002.
Lately midsize SUVs have been assailing the sales charts like mountain goats at the expense of conventional sedans and wagons. The exception is the Mazda6, which has maintained a rigid foothold in the market, making it the most popular midsize car import under $60,000.
With the latest update, Mazda expects to sell three hundred eighty units a month through continued evolution of its Kodo ‘Soul of Motion’ design language and a combination of driving pleasure and environmental excellence via the company’s innovative SkyActiv technology.
The latter is led by uprated vehicle dynamics; a series of fresh vehicle movability control technologies, providing integrated control of the engine, transmission, chassis and assets to enhance the connection inbetween car and driver.
Very first up is G-Vectoring Control, which varies engine torque in response to steering input, in order to enhance the vertical fountain on each wheel.
Mazda maintains this brings the movement of the car more in line with the driver’s intentions, reducing the need for steering corrections, including many that are made unconsciously. This reduces occupant sway and makes for a more comfy rail. GVC also improves treating and stability on moist or unsealed roads.
Further enhancements include sound frequency technology reducing diesel engine noise, NVH improvements cutting cabin noise and i-ActivSense being expanded to include pedestrian detection included in the Clever City Brake Support system
Uprated Mazda6 is available as a sedan or station wagon, in Sport, Touring, GT and Atenza variants, with petrol or diesel power and a six-speed automatic transmission. Prices have not switched from the previous model.
The entry-level Sport petrol starts the ball rolling at $32,490, the Touring diesel is $40,140, while the top-dog Atenza leads the pack at $48,240 for the petrol and $49,540 the diesel, all plus on-road costs.
Exterior switches are limited to redesigned door mirrors, power folding from Touring variant upwards.
The range of eight colours has been augmented by Machine Grey Metallic that Mazda tells us is designed to treat colour as an element of figure structure. So there…
Inwards is a fresh steering wheel with smaller centre, slimmer chrome on the lower spoke, while upgraded instruments concentrate on improving the legibility. The Active Driving Display is now utter colour, brighter and with more definition. This is aimed at enabling drivers to concentrate more on driving.
Warnings are now displayed in crimson and amber for added readability while the multi-information, displaying more functions, is also now utter colour with higher definition and contrast.
The fit and finish of the interior are 2nd to none in this price segment. Special attention has been paid to the top-of-the-range Atenza with top quality nappa leather upholstery covering plush seats, featuring coloured stitching and piping.
A bright white interior could cause some maintenance angst but visually sets off well contrasting black ceiling and poles. Titanium colour is used to decorate the instrument panel, door trim, window switch surrounds and gear shift panel.
Texture and practicality of petite parts touched by palms also have come in for serious attention; for example satin chrome plate on the power seat switches and glove box knob.
The cabin atmosphere is peaceful and relaxed thanks to a rigid figure and efficient insulation from engine, road and wind noise.
At two thousand eight hundred thirty mm, the fresh Mazda6 sedan has one of the longest wheelbases in the segment making for a spacious cabin. The wagon is slightly shorter. The sedan boot is a generous four hundred seventy four litres, the wagon five hundred six litres.
Connectivity is via hands-free phone, with a voice function able to read emails out noisy when the vehicle is on the stir. Pre-set messages can be used to give a suitable reply. Web content is obtainable through your smartphone.
Bose six or eleven-speaker audio systems are on suggest and fresh in the range is DAB+ digital radio. Navigation software comes with free upgrades for three years.
Power trains are carried over from the previous Mazda6 launched in 2012. The Two.5-litre petrol unit features a high 13:1 compression ratio; a specially designed 4-2-1 harass system and enhanced fuel sploog properties, among other things, to counter the drawbacks to such high compression.
It puts out one hundred thirty eight kW of power at five thousand seven hundred rpm and two hundred fifty Nm of torque at three thousand two hundred fifty rpm. Combined urban / highway fuel consumption is put at 6.6 litres per one hundred kilometres and carbon dioxide emissions at one hundred fifty three g/km.
The Two.2-litre turbo-diesel has common-rail direct injection and an intercooled turbocharger. The power rating is one hundred twenty nine kW at four thousand five hundred rpm, the torque a handy four hundred twenty Nm at a relatively low two thousand revs.
With i-stop engine technology and i-Eloop brake energy regeneration, combined fuel economy is a claimed 6.Two litres per one hundred kilometres.
During a loop out of Melbourne on a cold (12-degree) rainy day our petrol-powered Atenza sedan was hobbled by slow moving road users but did enough to demonstrate the engine to be responsive to the pedal, if a little coarse on hard acceleration.
The powertrain, with its standard six-speed automatic transmission, has the capability to adopt a Sport mode via drive selection switch on the centre console. Drivers can love smarter pedal response and a more spirited driving practice. Steering wheel-mounted spanking paddle shifts suggest the driver added control.
The rail is plane and generally stable. However, the rigid suspension is liable to pick up road surface blemishes with bumps and bangs. The cabin atmosphere is quiet and relaxed thanks to a rigid bod and efficient insulation from engine, road and wind noise.
The last mentioned is the result of striking a balance inbetween the underfloor and upper figure air flow. The result is a low haul co-efficient of CD 0.27, high-speed stability and fuel economy.
Safety has been improved with additions to the Mazda i-Activsense system, including improved detection of pedestrians via a fresh camera up front; fresh traffic sign identification technology; and brake support that now operates over a broader speed range. Passive safety comes with a lightweight yet rigid assets and built-in energy absorbing crumple zones.
Ultimately, for once a vehicle lives up to the hype heaped on it by the marketers – ‘quietly confident’ says the advert. Someone was actually taking notice.
2016 Mazda six list pricing
Mazda6 Two.Five Sport petrol automatic: $32,490
Mazda6 Two.Five Touring petrol automatic: $37,290
Mazda6 Two.Five GT petrol automatic: $42,690
Mazda6 Two.Five Atenza petrol automatic: $45,390
Mazda6 Two.Two Touring diesel automatic: $40,140
Mazda6 Two.Two GT diesel automatic: $45,540
Mazda6 Two.Two Atenza diesel automatic: $48,240
Mazda6 Two.Five Sport petrol automatic: $33,790
Mazda6 Two.Five Touring petrol automatic: $37,590
Mazda6 Two.Five GT petrol automatic: $43,990
Mazda6 Two.Five Atenza petrol automatic: $46,690
Mazda6 Two.Two Touring diesel automatic: $41,440
Mazda6 Two.Two GT diesel automatic: $46,840
Mazda6 Two.Two Atenza diesel automatic: $49,540