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Mazda Motor Corporation known as simply Mazda, is usually 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 made in the company's Japanese plants, with all the remainder due to a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2015, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.Mazda began because 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 corporation had to be saved from bankruptcy by Hiroshima Saving Bank along with other business leaders in Hiroshima.In 1931 Toyo Kogyo moved from manufacturing machine tools to vehicles while using introduction from the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons with the Japanese military during the entire Second World War, especially the series 30 through 35 Type 99 rifle. The company formally adopted the Mazda name back in 1984, though every automobile sold right away 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 because of the NSU Ro 80 and made a decision to put an important engineering effort into development from the Wankel rotary engine in order of differentiating itself using their company Japanese auto companies. The company formed a company relationship with German company NSU and began with all the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing to the day with all the Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines to the automotive market, usually by way of attrition (NSU and Citroën both quit 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 started to export its vehicles. Both piston-powered and rotary-powered models made their way world wide. The rotary models quickly removed for their mixture of good power and light-weight weight when compared with piston-engined competitors that required heavier V6 or V8 engines to make the same power. The R100 plus the RX series (RX-2, RX-3, and RX-4) led you can actually export efforts.During 1968, Mazda started formal operations in Canada (MazdaCanada) although Mazdas were noticed in Canada since 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 for the conventional piston-powered B-Series model) solely for North American buyers. To this day, Mazda remains to be the only automaker to obtain produced a Wankel-powered vehicle. Additionally, additionally it is the only marque to possess ever offered a rotary-powered bus (the Mazda Parkway, offered only in Japan) or station wagon (from the RX-3 and RX-4 lines without a doubt markets). After nine numerous years of development, Mazda finally launched its new model within the U.S. in 1970.Mazda's rotary success continued before the onset on the 1973 oil crisis. As American buyers (together with those in other nations) quickly considered 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 (regarding productivity), inability to accommodate excess inventory and over-reliance around the U.S. market, this company suffered a huge reduction 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, along with the companies subcontractors and distributors. However, the corporation had not totally turned its back on piston engines, the way it continued to make a assortment of four-cylinder models over the 1970s. The smaller Familia line for example became essential 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 your sporting motorist rather than mainstream powerplant. Starting together with the 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 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 has become widely credited with reviving the concept with the small performance car after its decline from the late 1970s.