Mazda 6 (bottom)： Ma 6, Ruiyi, Artz, how far can the road of intermediate cars go？

The Second Generation mazda 6: Ruiyi (GH1/GH2, 2007-2016)

Today, when we talk about Mazda’s design, we always talk about zoom-zoom and Soul Design. What about the middle? In fact, around 2005, Mazda’s design aesthetics also had an evolution: flow. After three concept cars, Sassou (Sassou), Senku (Senku) and Kabura (Kabura), Mazda released Nagare (Naga) concept car at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show.

How do you say this thing? Mazda’s official statement is that the beauty of wind, water and magma flow is integrated into the car design, and the body lines do not emphasize the sense of muscle and strength, but want to restore the elegance and beauty of the fluid as much as possible. The Japanese still have a way of playing with this concept of god and god.

At the subsequent Frankfurt Motor Show in 2007, Mazda launched two first-time models with the concept of Streaming: the second-generation mazda 6 and mazda 5, which is the MPV.

Compared with the original generation, the second-generation mazda 6’s willow eye lamp group is more exquisite, which is a bit like a phoenix eye. With the fog lamps on both sides of the air intake below, it looks like a small animal with a grinning teeth, and the body lines are more agile. Although the whole car has a lot of body feeling, it has the momentum of an intermediate car, but it doesn’t look heavy at all. On the contrary, it makes people feel that this car should float with the wind.

In terms of power and configuration, the second-generation mazda 6 has not been greatly upgraded. It is still a MZR series engine, but 2.3L has been replaced by 2.5L. On the contrary, I have been in the car, which is more comfortable and practical, especially in the back row. Compared with the space where Lao Ma Liu can only take dogs, it really touches the passing line of the space of intermediate cars.

This generation of models still has three versions: four-door sedan, five-door hatchback and travel version. In the Middle East, it is sold under the same roof as Lao Ma Liu, so it can only be called mazda 6 ultra. The situation in China is similar. FAW introduced the sedan version in 2009, and Lao Ma Liu was still on sale when it went on the market, so it had to adopt a new name, mazda 6 Ruiyi. Everyone used to call it Ruiyi directly, which was also very nice.

Moreover, FAW has experienced the failure of the Lao Ma Liu coupe and the travel version. This time, it is smart. You are all talking about it. When you go public, you all say it’s good. When you pay for it, you all run away. Only a small amount of the 2.5L coupe version is introduced, and the travel version doesn’t touch it at all.

But this coupe version is really good. The trunk is big, the power is strong, and it also saves fuel. In those days, I even took a drip that a big brother drove in this thing. I said, big brother, aren’t you afraid of losing money? Big brother said that the picture is happy.

Ruiyi was sold in China from 2009 to 2016, and ended its life cycle in the same year as Lao Ma Liu, but the sales difference was more than a little bit. Fortunately, FAW was not idle, and took the technology to Pentium to create a B90, which was said to maximize the resource utilization rate. Unexpectedly, Mazda was never better.

The Third Generation of mazda 6: Artz (GJ1/GL, 2012-present)

It may be that the concept of flow is too advanced, and it is not even suitable for automobile design. It was abandoned by Mazda in just four or five years. In 2010, Mazda used the concept car "Tough" Shinari to tell the most successful story in the automobile circle: the design concept KODO- Soul of Motion ".

What is the concept of soul movement? Mazda official website said so. In short, it is the power of being ready to move. Talking to people is the beauty of the moment when you are ready to move but haven’t moved, such as moving.

Under the guidance of this design concept, Mazda exhibited the development blueprint of the third-generation mazda 6, Takeri concept car, at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2011, which is very similar to the production car running on the road. In 2012, Mazda released the sedan version of the third-generation mazda 6 at the Moscow Motor Show, and released the travel version at the Paris Motor Show in April the following year, canceling the coupe version, and named it Atenza and Artz globally.

Compared with the second generation, you can hardly find anything in common except the abstract pentagonal grille. The new design language emphasizes the sculptural feeling of the car body, weakens the existence of lines, and empowers the car body with the change of the curvature radius of the car body surface. Officially, this is a gesture from a cheetah when it is running, but in my opinion, it is the beauty of a plastic bag that is about to be blown away by the wind.

By the way, it must be red. Born together with the concept of soul movement, there is also an exclusive color with the same name as Ferrari red: soul movement red, which can show different luster from different angles. Everyone says it looks good when it is used in Mazda, but just ask a master of painting and painting, and you will know that it is a kind of beauty that ignores the lives of others.

In terms of configuration, Artz’s early version of the engine is still two kinds of self-priming engines, 2.0L and 2.5L. With Mazda’s own excellent 6AT gearbox, it is silky smooth to drive. The interior has also been greatly upgraded. Although the screen is small, it is enough and easy to use without considering the comparison with the new forces. The ride space is also a little bigger, and the whole car has evolved in a bigger direction.

In China, Artz was introduced in 2014, but the real change occurred in several changes from 2016 to 2018. In 2016, Artz changed a set of interiors and introduced another housekeeping skill of Mazda: Chuangchi Blue Sky Technology.

In the early days, Chuangchi Blue Sky was just an engine technology developed by Mazda to meet the requirements of environmental protection. Later, Chuangchi Blue Sky became a set of optimization technologies for major automobile accessories, including a series of driving-related things such as engine gearbox chassis, in order to make the car drive more smoothly and save fuel. Mazda means, it’s not cool to be quick, but to be skillful, she brushed the strings, twisted them slow, swept them, plucked them.

This is also the main content of Artz’s subsequent changes. From 2017 to 2019, the whole set of blue sky technology was put on Artz, and the second generation soul design concept was applied to further erase unnecessary lines, so that the whole car could be made up of curved surfaces as much as possible, which is the latest Artz that everyone can see now.

Yes, Artz has not been replaced for ten years since it went public. The fourth-generation mazda 6 has had information flowing out since last year, saying that the new car will adopt the same design concept of "the soul of motion" as CX-50, and even the whole system will have six cylinders, with the rear drive in the middle. Everything is what fans want Mazda to become.

However, in this era when electric motors are popular, Mazda still insists on internal combustion engines. Some people say that it is a craftsman’s spirit, some people say that the technology is not good, and some people say that it is a dead duck’s mouth shut. In short, it gives people a feeling of spending money on sharpening stones. Let’s talk about it when the fourth generation mazda 6 is really released.

Mazda 6’s story has come to an end. Technically, it must be more and more advanced, but from the story point of view, the second and third generations can obviously talk less than Lao Ma Liu, or even less than Capella earlier. From the birth of the first car in 1970, to the present, it is basically in a semi-delisting state. mazda 6 and even the entire Mazda brand seem to have no other topics to talk about except control and face value. How far can this legendary model go?

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