The new Mazda6 is the second of Mazda’s new generation of products, which incorporate both the full range of SKYACTIV technologies and the new design language. It will also be the first model equipped with Mazda’s brake energy regeneration system, i ELOOP (earlier post).

The introduction of i-ELOOP marks stage two of Mazda’s Building Block Strategy for environmental technology development. The strategy calls for thorough improvements in base automotive technologies before the step-by-step introduction of electric devices to improve fuel economy and reduce carbon emissions.

The model to be exhibited at the Moscow Motor Show is a Russian-specification sedan equipped with a direct-injection SKYACTIV-G 2.0 gasoline engine and six-speed SKYACTIV–DRIVE automatic transmission.