A KEY to Mazda’s platform-sharing arrangement with Isuzu is that the latest-gen BT-50 shares Isuzu’s venerable 3.0-litre turbo-diesel engine; an engine praised for being unstoppable and ‘truck tough’. It’s just a D-MAX disguised as a BT-50 … yeah?
Since Mazda severed ties with Ford and began its new relationship with Isuzu, the BT-50 has been somewhat of a sales success, despite the tribulations brought to the market by COVID – in fact, the BT-50 registered a sales record of 1222 in January 2022.
Helping with that sales success is in large part thanks to the popularity of said 3.0-litre, four-cylinder