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Mazda wants to have the greenest engine on the market by 2013 - and if everything goes according to plans, they will. Mazda's plan is to install a 70 miles per gallon drivetrain into their upcoming MAZDA2. A Mazda spokesman clarified the 70 MPG result was from a Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States, but still well above the competition's.

Mazda officially announced a "15 percent better gas mileage than the existing model."

The MAZDA2, or "Demio" in Japan, goes on sale in Japan in the first half of 2011, though the…

Mazda Motor Corp is ready to pump a huge load of money into their R&D funding - the Japanese auto maker wants to becoming a largely hybrid / green car maker by 2015. This will raise their ratio from above 20% in 2010 to about 40% by 2015.

According to news reporting agency Reuters: "In the current fiscal year, the carmaker earmarked 100 billion yen for group R&D spending, up 15 billion yen from fiscal 2009, of which slightly more than 20 percent will go toward developing green cars, the paper said."

"Mazda is expected to spend an average of…