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Mazda Motor Corporation typically called simply Mazda, is really a Japanese multinational automaker located in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, nearly all which (nearly one million) were stated in the company's Japanese plants, while using remainder originating from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2015, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.Mazda began as being 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 business 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 on the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons to the Japanese military through the entire Second World War, such as the series 30 through 35 Type 99 rifle. The company formally adopted the Mazda name back in 1984, though every automobile sold right from the start bore that name. The Mazda R360 has been available since 1960, and then the Mazda Carol in 1962.Mazda Cosmo SportBeginning inside the 1960s, Mazda was inspired with the NSU Ro 80 and thought we would put an important engineering effort into development on the Wankel rotary engine as a means of differentiating itself using their company Japanese auto companies. The company formed a small business relationship with German company NSU and began together with the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing to the current day with all the Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines with the automotive market, largely by way of attrition (NSU and Citroën both threw in the towel on the design throughout 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 around the globe. The rotary models quickly shot to popularity for their combined 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 along with 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 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 as far as to create the Mazda Rotary Pickup (based within the conventional piston-powered B-Series model) solely for North American buyers. To this day, Mazda continues to be only automaker to get produced a Wankel-powered vehicle. Additionally, it is additionally the only marque to get 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 a lot of development, Mazda finally launched its new model inside the U.S. in 1970.Mazda's rotary success continued till the onset from the 1973 oil crisis. As American buyers (together with those in other nations) quickly taken on vehicles with better fuel efficiency, the relatively thirsty rotary-powered models started to fall out of favor. Combined with being the least-efficient automaker in Japan (with regards to productivity), inability to accommodate excess inventory and over-reliance around the U.S. market, the business suffered a huge decrease in 1975. An already heavily indebted Toyo Kogyo was about the verge of bankruptcy and only agreed to be saved over the intervention of Sumitomo keiretsu group, namely Sumitomo Bank, plus 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 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 making it the rotary engine a choice to the sporting motorist instead of a mainstream powerplant. Starting with all the lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing with all 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 performance car, the piston-powered Mazda MX-5 Miata (sold because the Eunos and then Mazda Roadster in Japan), inspired because of the concept 'jinba ittai'. Introduced in 1989 to worldwide acclaim, the Roadster is widely credited with reviving the concept in the small performance car after its decline inside late 1970s.

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