2011 Mazda CX-7 [w/video]
Filed under: Crossover, Mazda, New Car Reviews
Is Zoom-Zoom More Important Than Room-Room?
2011 Mazda CX-7 – Click above for high-res image gallery
When we think of mid-size crossovers, words like “comfort,” “convenience” and “roominess” are the first things to spring to mind. For some CUVs, those are accurate descriptions, but the Mazda CX-7 also has to fulfill [...]
Mazda RX-9 to borrow hybrid tech from Toyota
May 24, 2011 by admin
Filed under Green Auto
Filed under: Hybrid, Mazda, Toyota
2006 Mazda Kabura Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
The rotary rumormill continues to spin about as fast as a Renesis engine at redline (that’s 9,000 rpm, for those keeping track). Might the next rotary-powered RX from Mazda be a hybrid? It very well may, if you believe a report [...]
Geneva 2011: Handsome Mazda Minagi Concept previews production crossover
March 2, 2011 by admin
Filed under Design and Style
Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Crossover, Mazda, Design/Style
Mazda Minagi Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
There’s more than one way to increase efficiency, and Mazda seems intent on proving that it can compete in the ever-rising stakes of fuel mileage without actually going to the trouble of investing heavily in hybrid technology.
Instead, [...]
Mazda Minagi Concept leaks out ahead of Geneva debut
January 22, 2011 by admin
Filed under Concept Cars
Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Crossover, Mazda
Mazda Minagi Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
Even though the Mazda Shinari concept probably won’t see the light of day as a production car, its design will indeed influence the next crop of Mazda’s production vehicles. Case in point: The Minagi concept that is set [...]
Officially Official: Mazda Minagi Concept headed to Geneva
January 19, 2011 by admin
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Geneva Motor Show, Crossover, Mazda
Mazda Minagi Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
Mazda has dropped the official details on the company’s Minagi Concept. The sleek CUV is intended to give us all a little taste of exactly where Mazda’s design is headed in the near future as well as show [...]
LA 2010: Mazda Shinari Concept makes North American debut
November 19, 2010 by admin
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Filed under: Concept Cars, LA Auto Show, Coupe, Performance, Mazda
2010 Mazda Shinari Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
Mazda’s current Nagare design language starts with smiling faces and moves back into wavy body panels. It’s hit and miss on the automaker’s existing lineup of cars. The Mazda Shinari Concept, which we previously saw [...]
Mazda to allocate up to 40 percent of R&D efforts to hybrids by 2015
October 10, 2010 by admin
Filed under Green Auto
Filed under: Hybrid, MPG, Mazda, Green Daily
Mazda is not a company that we commonly associate with hybrid vehicles, for good reason. Mazda has only ever offered one hybrid vehicle, the Tribute, and it was nothing more than a re-badged Ford Escape. To consider Mazda a serious player in the hybrid segment, the automaker must offer [...]
Video: Mazda Shinari concept and Kodo-fied Mazda3 make the scene
September 10, 2010 by admin
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Sedan, Videos, Paris Motor Show, Mazda
Mazda Shinari Concept – Click above to watch video after the jump
We’re going to go ahead and say it: of all of the companies out there, few demonstrate a command of the concept car quite like Mazda. While most manufacturers seem to be eschewing the concept [...]
Paris Preview: Mazda debuts new Kodo design language with Shinari Concept
August 31, 2010 by admin
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Sedan, Paris Motor Show, Mazda
Mazda Shinari Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
With the departure of Laurens van den Acker to Renault, Mazda’s loved or loathed Nagare design language has been dispatched, and in its place is a new designer (Ikuo Maeda) a new theme, a new concept and a [...]
Mazda Shinari Concept debuts new face of the brand in style
August 31, 2010 by admin
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Filed under: Concept Cars, Performance, Mazda, Design/Style
Mazda Shinari Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
When Mazda invited us to Milan to see its new concept car, we knew it must be something important. Normally concept cars get their 15 minutes of fame at an auto show, and then it’s off to the next press [...]
