The Japanese people from Mazda decided to create a special edition of the current MX-5 Roadster Coupe. The new limited edition is called Karai and is specially designed for the German customers. According to the first details, Mazda plans to market 165 units of the new MX-5 Roadster Coupe Karai for Germany at a starting price of €30,000. The new...
Lovable and successful as the Mazda 3 may be, not even the immense sales figures guarantee that everything is done right with it. Recent reports have been trickling in on how the Japanese company is gearing up for a massive recall on a global scale that focuses around the Mazda 3 / Axela (as it's known in Japan). It seems...
The South Koreans from Mazda officially announced that they are ready to introduce a new version of the seven-seater CX-9 in Australia. We talk about a model that benefits from a front-wheel drive system, a good alternative for the all-wheel drive model, as least in theory. The new front-wheel drive Mazda CX-9 SUV will be available with two trim packages,...
One of Mazda's most fruitful products got a major update recently and today was its official unveiling date. Dubbed as a facelift, it would seem like not much has changed. More patient eyes however will have taken a proper look at the new spec sheet and noticed the new engine that is available in it and that makes all the...
The Mazda Miata is one of the best ranking sports cars of all times, a numerous award winner, a favorite of everyone and possibly one of the most difficult to improve car a Japanese manufacturer has been faced with. Mazda is in just that sort of situation at the moment. After the original version lasted the best part of two...
It has been several years since Ford held an actually significant stake of the Mazda pie and ever once and again we see more proof of these two companies "breaking up". The last of such endeavors is that Mazda will soon stop production at a joint plant in Michigan which is owned by Ford, ergo another break-up. AutoAlliance International is...
The Japanese people from Mazda announced the introducing of a new 1.3-liter SKYACTIV-G engine in the range, a unit which manages to provide a very good fuel consumption alongside with decent performance. Recently, Mazda revealed their newest member of the SKYACTIV-G family, a propeller which provides an average fuel consumption of just 3,3 liters/100 kilometers. The Automotive Engineering Exposition held...
Initial reports that contained the killing off of the Mazda 6 and Subaru Tribeca were wrong. We know for certain that Mazda is keeping their slow selling sedan on the market for at least another generation, as the Japanese themselves claim. Mazda’s U.S. CEO Jim O'Sullivan was the one who brought the good news and he even confirmed the existence...
Japan has been giving us quite a few bad news lately but this particular one has a feeling about it that we will let slide. It seems like the Japanese decided to cancel any chance the Mazda 6 and the Subaru Tribeca have at any more facelifts or versions. Both these two cars will be reaching this turn point in...
Starting today, the senior vice president office within Mazda U.S. Operations Group will have a new name written on the door, Robert Davis' one. Mazda North America appointed Robert Davis to this position in order to have somebody more competent oversee the "Group" and all the actions the Japanese will need to see it have done. At his new position,...
The Japanese people from Mazda brought the facelift version of Mazda3 at the New York Auto Show and released new details of their revised model. Comparing the facelift version with the previous Mazda3 you won't see any major improvements, just a new Skyactiv-G 115-horsepower unit being added to the engine range for the US customers. The unit in question achieves...
The Japanese at Mazda have just announced that they've been making some progress on the small crossover they're working on. To mark the occasion Mazda announced that the new creation will be named the CX-5, something relatively easy to predict. I only say that because the only other SUV we have from Mazda already is called the CX-7 and it...
Honda and Mazda, two of the biggest Japanese car manufacturers decided to halt the exports for U.S. due to the difficult situation of their entire country after the terrible earthquake, tsunami waves and nuclear threatening. I think there is no need to remind the disaster that hit Japan and is threatening us too. Straight to the subject, Mazda decided to...
The Mazda MX5-GT is a lighter, faster, track-oriented Miata for those of you who just can't get enough fun in this popular roadster. If I step off the patronizing plate for a few minutes I'm going to acknowledge that this version of the Mazda MX-5 is a lot more serios than most of us would like to imagine. What we...
Following a path carved by the 2011 Mini Countryman, Mazda's 3 was recently acclaimed as Top Safety Pick under the IIHS crash testing program. The Insurance Istitute for Highway Safety does some pretty rigorous testing (as the photos clearly state) so the Japanese can be proud of their small sedan fir the award it's just won. To give you an...
Comemorating the Le Mans victory which happened 20 years ago, the Japanese people from Mazda announce a new special edition designed for MX-5. The Japanese roadster gets a series of improvements in order to properly celebrate the first victory in the Le Mans 24-hour race. Under the hood, power is provided by the 2.0-liter engine in cooperation with a six-speed...
Ford isn't exactly a stranger to Mazda, heck, for a while they even owned about a third of the entire Japanese car maker. That said though, at the moment, Ford barely owns some 3.5 percent of Mazda and thus the people from the Land of the Rising sun seem to want to move away. It's not like the Japanese aren't...
At something blatantly uninteresting that's called the Toronto International Auto Show, Mazda revealed their 2012 version of the 3 sedan which gets some facelift-like minor changes and some new engine technology. Since the styling tweaks are pretty difficult to spot the Canadians got the first real life look at the Skyactive-G engine. We've had some info on the Skyactive-G engine...
Last year, sometime in the middle of it, Mazda came out with a range of special edition models called the Takuya lineup. The Japanese have now decided to beat themselves to the punch and release a 2011 Takuya lineup earlier on in the year. Perhaps they're making up for something. This whole Takuya limited edition bit is taking things a...
We all have to admit, the Mazda MX-5 (Miata to you Yank folks and Roadster to you Japs) has gotten to the point where it's so brilliant it's almost boring. That may be so, but being boring to talk about doesn't mean the small Japanese roadster is boring to drive. And that is why it's such a great seller. In...
