Mazda's 2017 G-Vectoring Control brings dynamic refinement

Spend time with Mazda's talented vehicle-dynamics engineers as they fine-tune a new model before production release and you may hear the Japanese term jinba ittai-the concept of driver and car (more literally, horse and rider) as one. And that concept was very much at play during development of the automaker's latest technology for improving steering response, smoothness and precision.

It's called G-Vectoring Control (GVC), a name that is a bit of a misnomer. It is not a torque-vectoring system aimed at dramatically improving race-circuit lap times. Rather, the purpose of the system is to endow the vehicle with refined and natural smoothness in normal day-to-day driving environments.