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Mazda Motor Corporation known as simply Mazda, is often a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, virtually all which (nearly one million) were created in the company's Japanese plants, using the remainder originating from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2015, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.Mazda began because Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd, founded in Hiroshima, Japan, 30 January 1920. Toyo Cork Kogyo renamed itself to Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. in 1927. In the late 1920s the corporation had to be saved from bankruptcy by Hiroshima Saving Bank along with business leaders in Hiroshima.In 1931 Toyo Kogyo moved from manufacturing machine tools to vehicles using the introduction with the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons for your Japanese military over the Second World War, especially the series 30 through 35 Type 99 rifle. The company formally adopted the Mazda name back in 1984, though every automobile sold right away bore that name. The Mazda R360 has been available since 1960, then the Mazda Carol in 1962.Mazda Cosmo SportBeginning inside the 1960s, Mazda was inspired with the NSU Ro 80 and chosen to put a serious engineering effort into development from the Wankel rotary engine as a method of differentiating itself business Japanese auto companies. The company formed an enterprise relationship with German company NSU and began with all the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing to the day while using Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is among the most sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines to the automotive market, largely by way of attrition (NSU and Citroën both threw in the towel on the design in the 1970s, and prototype Corvette efforts by General Motors never made it to production.This effort to make attention to itself apparently helped, as Mazda rapidly started export its vehicles. Both piston-powered and rotary-powered models made their way all over the world. The rotary models quickly become popular for their mix of good power and lightweight weight in comparison to piston-engined competitors that required heavier V6 or V8 engines to generate the same power. The R100 and also the RX series (RX-2, RX-3, and RX-4) led the business's export efforts.During 1968, Mazda started formal operations in Canada (MazdaCanada) although Mazdas were observed in Canada around 1959. In 1970, Mazda formally entered the American market (Mazda North American Operations) and was very successful there, going in terms of to create the Mazda Rotary Pickup (based about the conventional piston-powered B-Series model) solely for North American buyers. To this day, Mazda continues to be the only automaker to own produced a Wankel-powered truck. Additionally, additionally it is the only marque to own ever offered a rotary-powered bus (the Mazda Parkway, offered only in Japan) or station wagon (from the RX-3 and RX-4 lines for sure markets). After nine a lot of development, Mazda finally launched its new model within the U.S. in 1970.Mazda's rotary success continued till the onset in the 1973 oil crisis. As American buyers (in addition to those in other nations) quickly taken on vehicles with better fuel efficiency, the relatively thirsty rotary-powered models did start to fall out of favor. Combined with being the least-efficient automaker in Japan (with regard to productivity), inability to adapt to excess inventory and over-reliance around the U.S. market, the organization suffered a huge decrease of 1975. An already heavily indebted Toyo Kogyo was within the verge of bankruptcy and only agreed to be saved throughout the intervention of Sumitomo keiretsu group, namely Sumitomo Bank, and also the companies subcontractors and distributors. However, the business had not totally turned its back on piston engines, because it continued to provide a assortment of four-cylinder models through the 1970s. The smaller Familia line for example became essential to Mazda's worldwide sales after 1973, as did the somewhat larger Capella series.Mazda RX-7 (first generation)Mazda refocused its efforts making it the rotary engine a choice for your sporting motorist as opposed to a mainstream powerplant. Starting together with the lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing together with the modern RX-8, Mazda has continued its dedication to this particular unique powerplant. This switch in focus also resulted from the development of another lightweight sports vehicle, the piston-powered Mazda MX-5 Miata (sold since the Eunos and then Mazda Roadster in Japan), inspired through the concept 'jinba ittai'. Introduced in 1989 to worldwide acclaim, the Roadster may be widely credited with reviving the concept from the small performance car after its decline within the late 1970s.

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