Whitten Brothers Mazda

The new Mazda CX-5 will be available at Whitten Brothers Mazda in Richmond, VA, at the beginning of 2012. The well anticipated crossover from Mazda will also be the car introducing the ultra-high tensile steel.

About ultra-high tensile steel:Ultra-high tensile steel is a stronger and lighter material than regular steel. Mazda will used this new steel in the fabrication of

Sure 40 mpg is good. But if you think that's the best automakers can do, think again. Case in point: a new powerhouse from Mazda. Coined the Skyactive-G 1.3-liter direct-injection gasoline engine, it can get over 70! No, we're not joking. Seventy miles per gallon!

The reason you maybe haven't heard of this gem before is because it's still a diamond in the rough. The ground-breaking Skyactive-G 1.3-liter direct-injection gasoline engine is, in fact, just about to debut for the very first time in Japan. Ideal for the slower, stop-and-go driving of more congested…

Mazda plans to have the greenest engine around by 2013 and if everything goes right they will. Mazda's plan is to implement a 70 miles per gallon drive train into their upcoming MAZDA2. A Mazda spokesman clarified the 70 MPG result was from a Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States, but still well above the competition's.

The official announcement is a "15 percent better gas mileage than the existing model."

The Demio, better known as MAZDA2 in North America, goes on sale in Japan in the first half of 2011, though…