Originally Posted by PimTac
Originally Posted by 1978elcamino
I know back in the day the Mazda's shared platforms with Ford. Is this 2.5 Mazda one that is a shared design to the Ford 2.5?
Nope it's all new. Only the displacement size remained the same.
Pretty sure the "Skyactive" line came out in 2010/11 timeframe and that's when Ford and Mazda went separate ways. I had a 2009 Mazda6 that had a 2.5L engine and it was identical to the Ford Fusion engine.