Mazda Supercharged A 2.3-Liter V6, But Not For The Reason You’d Expect

For decades, carmakers have searched for ways to make smaller engines deliver the performance and effortless torque normally associated with larger-displacement powerplants, without sacrificing their potential efficiency advantages. It is a difficult engineering compromise, particularly when extracting more performance traditionally means, before modern hybridization, increasing displacement or adding forced induction.