Mazda 3 saloon unveiled at LA Auto Show 19 November 2008 by Ben Pulman Mazda has officially unveiled its new 3 four-door saloon at the LA Auto Show today, revealing the car in full and releasing more technical details. A five-door hatchback (favoured in Europe) will be... Read more ...
Fire sale continues: Ford cuts stake in Mazda 18 November 2008 by Tim Pollard Yesterday GM sold its stake in Suzuki; today Ford announced plans to slash its shareholding in Mazda. Previously the Blue Oval held a third of Mazda’s stock, but it has cut that to just 13%. Ford... Read more ...
Mazda 3 saloon (2009): first photos 09 October 2008 by Tim Pollard Mazda is replacing its 3 family of hatchbacks and saloons and we'll see this US-market sedan at next month's Los Angeles motor show. It's a four-door for the notchback-obsessed Americans, but we'll... Read more ...
Mazda plots cleaner diesels, rotaries, stop-start 19 September 2008 by Richard Aucock Mazda has opened its R&D department up to CAR, in a demonstration of how it's tackling a changing world. It's spilled the beans on its future engine tech, how it's going to continue stripping weight... Read more ...
Mazda Kiyora concept (2008): first pictures 04 September 2008 by Ben Pulman The Mazda Kiyora is the latest Nagare ‘flow’ concept, and previews an all-new Mazda city car that could be in production as early as 2010 if public reaction is positive enough. The Kiyora will be... Read more ...
Mazda at the London motor show 2008 22 July 2008 by Ben Whitworth Mazda's not a company afraid of striking out on a limb every now and then. And it rammed home its rotary-engined know-how with a brace of sports cars featuring its Wankel motor at the London show. Read more ...
Mazda Kazamai concept: first pictures 15 July 2008 by Ben Pulman Mazda will use the August 2008 Moscow motor show to unveil its new crossover concept, the Kazamai. Japanese for ‘swirling crosswinds’, the Kazamai is Mazda’s latest concept car to showcase the... Read more ...
Mazda’s Russian concept car: first picture 16 June 2008 by Tim Pollard Want proof that the Russian car market is on its way to becoming one of the world’s biggest and most important? Mazda today confirmed it would build this bespoke concept car for the 2008 Moscow... Read more ...
Mazda 2 three-door (2008): first official pictures 23 January 2008 by Ben Pulman Mazda will debut the three-door 2 at the Geneva Motor Show in early March. And while the five-door 2 hardly looks staid, and actually rather dynamic, the Japanese company is claiming the three-door... Read more ...
Mazda 5 facelift (2008): first official pictures 17 January 2008 by Ben Pulman A new Mazda 5? Looks a bit like the old 5 to me… Very true, but then the 5 has never looked bad. It’s always been one of Mazda’s best, if underrated cars, and the facelift aims to gently polish it in... Read more ...
Mazda RX-8 facelift (2008): first official pictures 13 January 2008 by Ben Pulman Mazda’s facelifted RX-8 arrived at the Detroit Motor Show, and it’s more of a mild nip and tuck than a drastic overhaul. Mazda hasn’t suddenly dropped in a V6 or anything like that – so far over... Read more ...
Mazda Furai concept: first official pictures 09 January 2008 by Ben Pulman The new Furai is designed to blend the boundaries between road cars and race cars, according to Mazda. The Japanese company claims that on any given weekend there are more Mazdas and Mazda-powered... Read more ...
Mazda Furai concept sneak preview 12 December 2007 by Ben Whitworth Mazda will pull the wraps of yet another concept car at Detroit – and has released this teaser shot to whet our appetites. Called the Furai – that’s Japanese for ‘the sound of the wind’ - the car was... Read more ...
Mazda Taiki unveiled 25 October 2007 by Tim Pollard You're not telling me that Mazda is about to launch a car with out-riggers and a freaky body, are you? Yes. And no. Mazda has played with its 'nagare' design concept over the course of 2007, with a... Read more ...
Mazda Taiki concept 02 October 2007 by Tim Pollard Mazda Taiki: the lowdown Is it just us, or has Mazda gone a bit concept car crazy in recent months? Its current design mantra of 'nagare' - or flow - has spawned the Nagare, Ryuga and Hakaze show-offs... Read more ...
Mazda Taiki concept: first official pictures 02 October 2007 by Tim Pollard Mazda Taiki: the lowdown Is it just us, or has Mazda gone a bit concept car crazy in recent months? Its current design mantra of 'nagare' - or flow - has spawned the Nagare, Ryuga and Hakaze show-offs... Read more ...
Mazda 6 12 September 2007 by Ben Barry Mazda 6: haven't we seen this before? Kind of. We’ve previously been teased with a press shot showing just the front of the new, Mondeo-based Mazda 6, but the car was officially unveiled at Frankfurt,... Read more ...
Mazda 6 (2007): first official pictures 07 August 2007 by Ben Whitworth This looks pretty cool. Mazda's designers are certainly pushing out the boat... You're not wrong. This is the first and only official picture of Mazda's new 6 that we'll see before it bows in at next... Read more ...
Mazda 2’s diet regime secrets 23 July 2007 by Ben Pulman So what’s all the fuss about then? Weight, or in the case of the Mazda 2, a lack of it. CO2 emissions are the biggest issue for the car industry right now, and governments around the globe are... Read more ...
Secrets of Mazda 2 diet regime 23 July 2007 by Ben Pulman So what’s all the fuss about then? Weight, or in the case of the Mazda 2, a lack of it. CO2 emissions are the biggest issue for the car industry right now, and governments around the globe are... Read more ...
Mazda CX-7 (2007): first official pictures 18 July 2007 by Ben Pulman Haven’t we seen this car before? We have, as CAR Online first drove the US-spec CX-7 back in August 2006. Now Mazda has released more details for the European model. At launch there's only one engine... Read more ...
Mazda’s rotary spins to its 40th 31 May 2007 by Tim Pollard Mazda yesterday celebrated 40 years of making rotary engines. It remains the only mainstream manufacturer persisting with this type of motor and has built 1.97 million of them since 1967. Rotary... Read more ...
Mazda 2 and Mazda Hakaze 08 March 2007 by Ben Whitworth Lighter and smaller - now there's a change Mazda drew in the Geneva crowds with two key show cars – its sprightly new Mazda 2 supermini and the radical Hakaze crossover concept. In a world that’s... Read more ...
Mazda 2 (2007): first official pictures 14 February 2007 by Jack Carfrae Mazda 2: the first sight Mazda will show this new 2 supermini at the Geneva Motor Show next month. Details are so sketchy, that this photo is all we’ve seen. It draws heavily on the Sassou concept of... Read more ...
Mazda Hakaze concept: first official pictures 05 February 2007 by Tim Pollard Mazda Hakaze: the lowdown Mazda claims to have reinvented the 4x4 with this new banana-coloured Hakaze concept at the Geneva Motor Show next month. It's a crossover with a twist, mixing the best bits... Read more ...
Mazda Ryuga concept 09 January 2007 by Gavin Green Mazda Ryuga: is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, but it’s inspired by nature – including birds – and it’s as smoothly surfaced as any jet fighter. Rather, the Mazda Ryuga is a honey-sweet concept car... Read more ...
Mazda Ryuga concept: first official pictures 14 December 2006 by Tim Pollard Meet the Mazda MX-3 of the future, the company’s Ryuga concept. Gullwing doors and stubby styling forge a recreation of Mazda’s baby coupe that sold between 1991-98. It was notable for having the... Read more ...
Mazda Nagare concept: first official pictures 29 November 2006 by Ben Whitworth You're looking at Mazda’s RX-8 for the year 2020 – unveiled today at the Los Angeles Motorshow. The Nagare concept car signposts Mazda’s new design direction for its next generation of sports cars. Read more ...
Mazda hints at new look 15 November 2006 by Phil McNamara Mazda is working on an all-new, swoopy design language, which will be unveiled on this Nagare concept car in late November. The company has issued this borderline pointless, teaser sketch of the coupe... Read more ...
Mazda CX-7 gets sporty makeover for Europe 29 September 2006 by Ben Whitworth Mazda is scrabbling to ready a muscular 170bhp turbodiesel engine for its new CX-7 crossover, which arrives in Europe next summer. Although the five-seat 4x4 will initially come with a 258bhp version... Read more ...
Mazda launches amazing MX-5 CC 07 August 2006 by Chris Chilton Mazda is claiming the world's first no compromises coupe-convertible, with its MX-5 Roadster-coupe. Traditionally, folding tin-tops keep out thieves but steal luggage space. They boost refinement, but... Read more ...