The Toyo Cork Kogyo Company, founded in 1920 in Hiroshima, Japan, used the name “Mazda” for its first three-wheeled truck, built in 1931. Company founder Jujiro Matsuda chose the word “Mazda” because it was the name of the Zoroastrian god of good and light. Work on a small sedan began in the late 1930s, but development was halted so the company could pitch in with Japan’s war effort. Mazda began selling cars in the U.S. in 1970 and introduced America to Mazda’s effort to build fun-to-drive and affordable cars. In 1979, the Ford Motor Company purchased a 25 percent stake in Mazda after the Japanese company encountered a number of financial difficulties. Today, Mazda continues to manufacture sporty, fun to drive coupes and sedans that are within reach for many. Perhaps the most fun example would be today’s Mazda RX-8, the replacement for their long run sports car, the RX-7. Fast..fast..and fun….like a go-cart for the streets.
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2010 Mazda 6 Grand Touring Thursday, 8 July 2010, 11:07 pm
The Mazda 6 is a fine car if you’re looking for a mid-size family sedan.
The Mazda 6 is a fine car if you’re looking for a mid-size family sedan. The V-6 is strong and smooth, the six-speed automatic selects gears smartly and without drama, and the ride is comfortable without being flaccid. Mazda also has the best-looking car in the segment with those dynamic, shapely fenders. Yet, when Mazda enlarged their American-market mid-sizer for the 2009 model year, they lost the biggest thing they had going for them: a car that supported their uniquely sporty image. Unlike the engaging Mazda 3, the 6 doesn’t have that nimble, faster-than-it-actually-is feel.
Photo Gallery: 2010 Mazda 6 Grand Touring – Editor’s Notebook – Automobile Magazine
1967 Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S – Orange Blossom Tour, Florida Friday, 2 July 2010, 10:07 pm
Spring Break(Down): An end-of-winter celebration on four wheels.
The whole notion of heading to sunny Daytona Beach, Florida, on spring break never appealed to me, not even when I was in college in the cold, gray Northeast. The all-night parties, bad dancing, and inordinate amount of vomiting wasn’t my idea of a good time. I much preferred my springtime stimulation in vehicular form. You know – jumping cars over enormous frost heaves. And perfecting rally-style e-brake turns through snow-covered hairpins. And seeing if I could get my brake rotors to glow white by the bottom of a badly paved, tree-lined downhill section of my favorite back road.
Photo Gallery: 1967 Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S – Orange Blossom Tour, Florida – Automobile Magazine
2010 Mazda3 S Sport 5-Door – Four Seasons Update – June 2010 Friday, 25 June 2010, 4:06 pm
During its twelve months with us, the Mazda 3 has shown faultless reliability and has aged gracefully.
As our Four Seasons Mazda 3 prepares to pull out of our garage one last time, the odometer has rolled over the 26,000-mile mark. During its twelve months with us, the Mazda 3 has shown faultless reliability and has aged gracefully. Other than regular maintenance stops at 7500-mile intervals, our red Mazda was always ready to go.
Photo Gallery: 2010 Mazda3 S Sport 5-Door – Four Seasons Update – June 2010 – Automobile Magazine
Driven: 2011 Mazda2 Thursday, 24 June 2010, 11:06 pm
Meet the Fiesta’s Older Sibling
If you have a pulse and access to the Internet these days (the latter doesn’t always require the former), you’ve probably been exposed quite a bit to the Ford Fiesta. The little Ford has been all over Youtube, Twitter, and (shameless plug alert) our own web site. But the Fiesta isn’t the only hot subcompact launching this summer. No, we’re also being introduced to its cute older sibling, the Mazda 2. Back in 2007, Mazda introduced its slick-looking, youth-friendly hatchback on the same B-segment platform that would spawn the Fiesta. It proved a huge hit in Europe, surpassing 100,000 sales in its first year on the market, and was named World Car of the Year for 2008. We liked it enough to conduct a rare European Four Seasons test on one, and called it a “great car for tough times.” But until recently, there were no plans for the car to make it to our market, despite the steadily growing demand for budget-friendly subcompacts. Now Mazda, all but cut off from its sugar daddy in Dearborn (Ford still retains an 13.8 percent share), has decided to crash the Fiesta’s party by launching the 2 here this summer.
Photo Gallery: Driven: 2011 Mazda2 – Automobile Magazine
2010 Mazda3 s Sport 5-Door – Four Seasons Update – May 2010 Thursday, 27 May 2010, 3:05 pm
We’ve got just less than a month before our Mazda 3 leaves our Four Seasons fleet.
We’ve got just less than a month before our Mazda 3 leaves our Four Seasons fleet. In eleven months we’ve accumulated 24,554 miles and lots of driving impressions – most of them positive.
Photo Gallery: 2010 Mazda 3 s Sport 5-Door – Mazda Hatchback Long Term Review – Automobile Magazine
2010 Sneak Preview Monday, 24 May 2010, 8:05 pm
131 future cars to get excited about
Warning: the information and images on the following pages might antagonize you to no end. As you read about the most anticipated cars of the next four years, you might become frustrated by wanting what you can’t yet have. Just remember — good things come to those who wait. For now, dig in to the details, the spy photos, the informed illustrations, and the future-teasing concepts of our annual Sneak Preview. Thanks to our probing questions and well-placed sources, there’s plenty to dream about.
Photo Gallery: 2010 Sneak Preview – 131 Future Cars – Automobile Magazine
2010 Mazda RX-8 R3 Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:04 pm
One of our favorite coupes.
To some people, the sound of a rotary engine revving at 9000 rpm is like nails on a chalkboard. Not me. But its constant, high-pitched hum sounds similar to that of a busy beehive. It’s one of the most distinct sounds in the automotive world and has experienced great success both on the road and on the racetrack.
Photo Gallery: 2010 Mazda RX-8 R3 – Mazda Sport Coupe Review – Automobile Magazine
2009 Mazda Model Lineup
- 2009 Mazda Tribute
- 2009 Mazda RX-8
- 2009 Mazda MX 5 (Miata)
- 2009 Mazda 6
- 2009 Mazda 5
- 2009 Mazda 3
- 2009 Mazda CX-9
- 2009 Mazda CX-7
