Mazda has just unleashed the first images and details concerning their latest concept car – while at the same time announcing the car will make its world debut at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show in November. The Takeri is the latest Mazda concept car to use the company’s ‘KODO’ – Soul of Motion – design language. And for what is essentially a fairly standard four-door family sedan, Mazda’s designers have come up with something that looks sleek, stylish and also practical for the real world.
Underneath the Mazda Takeri’s taught bodywork is a economical SKYACTIV drivetrain, and also Mazda’s first regenerative braking system. This technology converts kinetic energy to electricity during deceleration, stores it in capacitors and then uses it to power the car’s electrical equipment – reducing load on the engine and in-turn saving fuel.
The Mazda Takeri is powered by the company’s latest SKYACTIV-D diesel engine which includes start-stop technology. There’s no word yet on power output or performance figures, but Mazda’s engineers were tasked with keeping the Takeri’s weight to a minimum in order to improve the car’s dynamics and keep fuel consumption to a minimum. Hopefully, if the Takeri spawns a production car – and by the looks of it that’s a distinct possibility – then it will offer the best of both worlds.
Source: Mazda
All the mazda concepts are starting to look the same.
Can’t they just make one that looks like that instead of constantly making concepts?
what happened to all those cool swoopy nagare concepts? they didnt make it to production and died.
Preview to next mazda 6 I hope.