GTHO! Mazda gets the H out of HCCI

A quick Google search suggests I’ve written 15-plus articles touching on the topic of homogeneous-charge compression ignition. I drove a somewhat jerky, very diesely sounding GM prototype in 2007 and expressed sincere optimism for Hyundai’s GDCI riff on the idea in 2013. I’ve written epitaphs for these engines as the big car companies shuttered their research programs upon finding the benefits too low or the costs too high.

Now, seemingly