Ezra Dyer is a Car and Driver senior editor and columnist. He's now based in North Carolina but still remembers how to turn right. He owns a 2009 GEM e4 and once drove 206 mph. Those facts are mutually exclusive.
We love a good engine swap. Whether it's a Coyote 5.0-liter V-8 in a classic Bronco, a Cummins diesel in a Jeep, or even your garden-variety GM LS engine in a Nissan 240 SX, engine swaps make cars more interesting. So here's one for you: THS in a Mazda CX-50. That'll blow their minds at the next Cars Coffee, partner. Imagine: You've got the hood up on your Mazda with a crowd leaning in, onlookers saying things like, 'Woah, is that a Toyota Dynamic Force 2.
The company that builds the MX-5 Miata has steadfastly avoided using continuously variable automatic transmissions, but a CVT is part of the fundamental Toyota hybrid DNA, and so that's what the CX-50 Hybrid gets. There are no shift paddles, no pretending that there's any fun to be had shifting gears. Instead, as with a Prius, the gamification of your daily driving centers on the trip computer's fuel-economy readout.
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