Hybrid cars marked Mazda reach European markets over the next decade, through a process of expansion that will be gradual. Nothing “icons” style Prius or Insight, however: Mazda engine mount hybrid only on already existing models, or on future generations of the same.

The statement, issued by Vice President Philip Spender of the house, is reversing a half compared to what was said to Hiroshima a few months ago, Mazda said with conviction that you want to search for the killing of consumption and emissions through the continuous refinement of the traditional internal combustion engines and transmissions.

“We started to discuss hybrid because we realized that it is a necessity,” she says Spender. Nevertheless, of course, that a large part of the house engineering efforts will be directed to the improvement of “powertrain” current. The ambitious goal of reducing by 30% consumption by 2015 remains valid, and to reach it you must work on all fronts.