LOS ANGELES -- Despite engineering delays, Mazda still plans to launch a diesel engine in its Mazda6 midsize sedan, the company's top North American executive said.
"We're still very much committed to diesel," Jim O'Sullivan, CEO of Mazda North American Operations, said in an interview at the Los Angeles Auto Show. "We are still working on getting the performance aspects up to where we want them, and we do have a plan -- an engineering road map -- to get it done."
Mazda originally planned to launch the turbocharged 2.2-liter Skyactiv-D engine in 2013, but struggled to meet U.S. tailpipe emissions standards.