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Mazda Motor Corporation known as simply Mazda, is often a Japanese multinational automaker located in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, virtually all which (nearly 2million) were created in the company's Japanese plants, while using remainder 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 this company had to be saved from bankruptcy by Hiroshima Saving Bank as well as other business leaders in Hiroshima.In 1931 Toyo Kogyo moved from manufacturing machine tools to vehicles using the introduction with the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons with the Japanese military over the Second World War, such as the series 30 through 35 Type 99 rifle. The company formally adopted the Mazda name 26 years ago, though every automobile sold from the start bore that name. The Mazda R360 has been around since 1960, and then the Mazda Carol in 1962.Mazda Cosmo SportBeginning from the 1960s, Mazda was inspired through the NSU Ro 80 and chosen to put a serious engineering effort into development from the Wankel rotary engine as a method of differentiating itself off their Japanese auto companies. The company formed an enterprise relationship with German company NSU and began with all the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing for this day using the Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is just about the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines with the automotive market, usually 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 all over the world. The rotary models quickly become popular for their mix of good power and light-weight weight in comparison with piston-engined competitors that required heavier V6 or V8 engines to generate the same power. The R100 and also the RX series (RX-2, RX-3, and RX-4) led their export efforts.During 1968, Mazda started formal operations in Canada (MazdaCanada) although Mazdas were found 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 long 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 remains to be the only automaker to own produced a Wankel-powered vehicle. Additionally, it is additionally the only marque to obtain ever offered a rotary-powered bus (the Mazda Parkway, offered only in Japan) or station wagon (in the RX-3 and RX-4 lines for sure markets). After nine many years of development, Mazda finally launched its new model inside U.S. in 1970.Mazda's rotary success continued before onset on the 1973 oil crisis. As American buyers (and also those in other nations) quickly considered vehicles with better fuel efficiency, the relatively thirsty rotary-powered models begun to fall out of favor. Combined with being the least-efficient automaker in Japan (regarding productivity), inability to adapt 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 about the verge of bankruptcy and was just saved from the intervention of Sumitomo keiretsu group, namely Sumitomo Bank, as well as the companies subcontractors and distributors. However, this company had not totally turned its back on piston engines, mainly because it continued to provide a assortment of four-cylinder models through the entire 1970s. The smaller Familia line for example became vital 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 for that sporting motorist instead of a mainstream powerplant. Starting while using lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing while using modern RX-8, Mazda has continued its dedication to the unique powerplant. This switch in focus also resulted inside the development of another lightweight fancy car, the piston-powered Mazda MX-5 Miata (sold since the Eunos and later on Mazda Roadster in Japan), inspired from the concept 'jinba ittai'. Introduced in 1989 to worldwide acclaim, the Roadster continues to be widely credited with reviving the concept from the small sports vehicle after its decline within the late 1970s.