2014 Mazda 6 2.5L First Drive Review Car and Driver

Mazda Motor Corporation known as simply Mazda, is really a Japanese multinational automaker operating out of Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the vast majority of which (nearly a million) were manufactured in the company's Japanese plants, together with the remainder originating from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2015, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.Mazda began since the 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 while using introduction with the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons for that Japanese military during the entire Second World War, that include the series 30 through 35 Type 99 rifle. The company formally adopted the Mazda name 26 years ago, though every automobile sold in the first place bore that name. The Mazda R360 has been around since 1960, as well as the Mazda Carol in 1962.Mazda Cosmo SportBeginning from the 1960s, Mazda was inspired with the NSU Ro 80 and chosen to put an important engineering effort into development with the Wankel rotary engine as a means of differentiating itself off their Japanese auto companies. The company formed a company relationship with German company NSU and began with all the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing for this day while using Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is one of the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines for your automotive market, usually by way of attrition (NSU and Citroën both threw in the towel on the design over the 1970s, and prototype Corvette efforts by General Motors never made it to production.This effort to take attention to itself apparently helped, as Mazda rapidly did start to export its vehicles. Both piston-powered and rotary-powered models made their way around the globe. The rotary models quickly came into common use for their blend of good power and light-weight weight in comparison with piston-engined competitors that required heavier V6 or V8 engines to create the same power. The R100 plus the RX series (RX-2, RX-3, and RX-4) led their export efforts.During 1968, Mazda started formal operations in Canada (MazdaCanada) although Mazdas were noticed in Canada as soon as 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 around the conventional piston-powered B-Series model) solely for North American buyers. To this day, Mazda remains to be the only automaker to get produced a Wankel-powered pickup. Additionally, it is additionally 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 many markets). After nine many years of development, Mazda finally launched its new model within the U.S. in 1970.Mazda's rotary success continued before onset with the 1973 oil crisis. As American buyers (in addition to those in other nations) quickly looked to vehicles with better fuel efficiency, the relatively thirsty rotary-powered models started fall out of favor. Combined with being the least-efficient automaker in Japan (with regards to productivity), inability to adapt to excess inventory and over-reliance within the U.S. market, the corporation suffered a huge decrease in 1975. An already heavily indebted Toyo Kogyo was about the verge of bankruptcy and was just saved from the intervention of Sumitomo keiretsu group, namely Sumitomo Bank, plus the companies subcontractors and distributors. However, the organization had not totally turned its back on piston engines, mainly because it continued to generate a selection of four-cylinder models during the entire 1970s. The smaller Familia line specifically became extremely important to Mazda's worldwide sales after 1973, as did the somewhat larger Capella series.Mazda RX-7 (first generation)Mazda refocused its efforts and created the rotary engine a choice for that sporting motorist instead of a mainstream powerplant. Starting while using lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing with all the modern RX-8, Mazda has continued its dedication to this particular unique powerplant. This switch in focus also resulted within the development of another lightweight fancy car, the piston-powered Mazda MX-5 Miata (sold because the Eunos and later on Mazda Roadster in Japan), inspired because of the concept 'jinba ittai'. Introduced in 1989 to worldwide acclaim, the Roadster may be widely credited with reviving the concept in the small racecar after its decline from the late 1970s.

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