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Written by Tom Harrison
Welcome to (another) exceptionally good-looking Mazda. The Kai Concept is a "compact hatchback that sets the stage for the future of the Mazda brand", which means it"s probably not a million miles away from the next Mazda 3.If Mazda can carry the super-wide stance and vacuum-wrapped bodywork that "represent Mazda"s ideal hatchback form in its simplicity and beauty" over to next year"s production car, we"ll be first in the queue. If there"s a hatch that"s good-looking enough to reverse the march towards crossovers and away from conventional hatches, this is surely itRefreshingly the Kai has an actual engine, not some conceptual unobtanium hybrid thing that doesn"t exist yet and won"t for the next decade. It"s fitted with Mazda"s new Spark Controlled Compression Ignition SkyActiv-X engine, which is set to be the world"s first commercially-available petrol engine with compression ignition. At least when it"s released in a couple of years" time.Mazda says it gives between 10 and 30 per cent more torque than its outgoing SkyActiv-G engines and is 20 to 30 per cent more efficient. Think diesel mpg without the persecution, and more than 4,000rpm. Power is sent frontwards because family hatchback even though the Kai"s silhouette suggests otherwise.
Date written: 24 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9692
Welcome to (another) exceptionally good-looking Mazda. The Kai Concept is a "compact hatchback that sets the stage for the future of the Mazda brand", which means it"s probably not a million miles away from the next Mazda 3.If Mazda can carry the super-wide stance and vacuum-wrapped bodywork that "represent Mazda"s ideal hatchback form in its simplicity and beauty" over to next year"s production car, we"ll be first in the queue. If there"s a hatch that"s good-looking enough to reverse the march towards crossovers and away from conventional hatches, this is surely itRefreshingly the Kai has an actual engine, not some conceptual unobtanium hybrid thing that doesn"t exist yet and won"t for the next decade. It"s fitted with Mazda"s new Spark Controlled Compression Ignition SkyActiv-X engine, which is set to be the world"s first commercially-available petrol engine with compression ignition. At least when it"s released in a couple of years" time.Mazda says it gives between 10 and 30 per cent more torque than its outgoing SkyActiv-G engines and is 20 to 30 per cent more efficient. Think diesel mpg without the persecution, and more than 4,000rpm. Power is sent frontwards because family hatchback even though the Kai"s silhouette suggests otherwise.
Date written: 24 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9692
