Ahead of last year's NASCAR’s season finale in Phoenix, my friend and fellow car nerd, Bozi Tatarevic, asked Mazda to borrow a CX ... hybrid making 340 hp, paired to an eight-speed automatic ...

Mazda’s CX ... hybrid model is gone, and while there are no on-paper improvements to the existing 2.3-liter turbo inline-four nor 3.0-liter turbo V6, Ford has updated the 10-speed automatic ...

It's certainly better than Mazda's old torque converter auto in the CX-5. But as is often the case with plug-in hybrids, go from cruising to asking for full power and it takes an age to juggle the ...