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Mazda Motor Corporation known as 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, many which (nearly 2million) were manufactured in the company's Japanese plants, using the remainder due to a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2015, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.Mazda began because 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 and also other business leaders in Hiroshima.In 1931 Toyo Kogyo moved from manufacturing machine tools to vehicles together with the introduction on the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons to the Japanese military through 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 right away bore that name. The Mazda R360 has been around since 1960, as well as the Mazda Carol in 1962.Mazda Cosmo SportBeginning within the 1960s, Mazda was inspired through the NSU Ro 80 and thought we would put an essential engineering effort into development with the Wankel rotary engine as an easy way of differentiating itself using Japanese auto companies. The company formed an organization relationship with German company NSU and began using the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing to this particular day while using Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is among the most sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines for your automotive market, usually by way of attrition (NSU and Citroën both lost the battle on the design through 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 begun to export its vehicles. Both piston-powered and rotary-powered models made their way around the globe. The rotary models quickly came into common use for their mix of good power and lightweight weight when comparing piston-engined competitors that required heavier V6 or V8 engines to create the same power. The R100 as well as 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 in terms of to create the Mazda Rotary Pickup (based about the conventional piston-powered B-Series model) solely for North American buyers. To this day, Mazda continues to be only automaker to own produced a Wankel-powered truck. Additionally, it's also 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 many markets). After nine a lot of development, Mazda finally launched its new model within the U.S. in 1970.Mazda's rotary success continued before onset in the 1973 oil crisis. As American buyers (in addition to those in other nations) quickly ventured into vehicles with better fuel efficiency, the relatively thirsty rotary-powered models started fall out of favor. Combined with being the least-efficient automaker in Japan (with regard to productivity), inability to conform to excess inventory and over-reliance for the U.S. market, the corporation suffered a huge reduction in 1975. An already heavily indebted Toyo Kogyo was for the verge of bankruptcy and only agreed to be saved from the intervention of Sumitomo keiretsu group, namely Sumitomo Bank, along with the companies subcontractors and distributors. However, the organization had not totally turned its back on piston engines, since it continued to generate a various four-cylinder models over the 1970s. The smaller Familia line particularly became crucial to Mazda's worldwide sales after 1973, as did the somewhat larger Capella series.Mazda RX-7 (first generation)Mazda refocused its efforts making the rotary engine a choice for that sporting motorist rather than mainstream powerplant. Starting while using lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing while using modern RX-8, Mazda has continued its dedication to the present unique powerplant. This switch in focus also resulted inside development of another lightweight racecar, 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 has become widely credited with reviving the concept with the small sports vehicle after its decline within the late 1970s.