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Mazda Motor Corporation known as simply Mazda, can be 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 one million) were created in the company's Japanese plants, together with the remainder 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 other business leaders in Hiroshima.In 1931 Toyo Kogyo moved from manufacturing machine tools to vehicles with all the introduction from the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons for your Japanese military during the entire Second World War, especially the series 30 through 35 Type 99 rifle. The company formally adopted the Mazda name twenty six years ago, though every automobile sold in the first place bore that name. The Mazda R360 has been available since 1960, as well as the Mazda Carol in 1962.Mazda Cosmo SportBeginning inside 1960s, Mazda was inspired because of the NSU Ro 80 and thought we would put a significant engineering effort into development from the Wankel rotary engine as a means of differentiating itself off their Japanese auto companies. The company formed a small business relationship with German company NSU and began using the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing to the current day using the Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is one of the 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 create attention to itself apparently helped, as Mazda rapidly started to export its vehicles. Both piston-powered and rotary-powered models made their way around the globe. The rotary models quickly shot to popularity for their combined good power and lightweight weight when compared 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 you can actually export efforts.During 1968, Mazda started formal operations in Canada (MazdaCanada) although Mazdas were affecting Canada since 1959. In 1970, Mazda formally entered the American market (Mazda North American Operations) and was very successful there, going as far as to create the Mazda Rotary Pickup (based for the conventional piston-powered B-Series model) solely for North American buyers. To this day, Mazda continues to be the only automaker to obtain produced a Wankel-powered vehicle. Additionally, it's also the only marque to possess ever offered a rotary-powered bus (the Mazda Parkway, offered only in Japan) or station wagon (inside the RX-3 and RX-4 lines for sure markets). After nine numerous development, Mazda finally launched its new model inside the U.S. in 1970.Mazda's rotary success continued before 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 started fall out of favor. Combined with being the least-efficient automaker in Japan (with regard to productivity), inability to alter to excess inventory and over-reliance within the U.S. market, the business suffered a huge decrease in 1975. An already heavily indebted Toyo Kogyo was around the verge of bankruptcy and only agreed to be saved throughout the intervention of Sumitomo keiretsu group, namely Sumitomo Bank, plus the companies subcontractors and distributors. However, the corporation had not totally turned its back on piston engines, mainly because it continued to provide a various four-cylinder models during the entire 1970s. The smaller Familia line for example 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 generating the rotary engine a choice for your sporting motorist rather than mainstream powerplant. Starting while using lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing using the modern RX-8, Mazda has continued its dedication to the present unique powerplant. This switch in focus also resulted within the development of another lightweight sports vehicle, the piston-powered Mazda MX-5 Miata (sold because the Eunos and then Mazda Roadster in Japan), inspired through the concept 'jinba ittai'. Introduced in 1989 to worldwide acclaim, the Roadster has become widely credited with reviving the concept in the small performance car after its decline inside late 1970s.

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