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Mazda Motor Corporation known as simply Mazda, can be a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered 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 since 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 together with the introduction with the Mazda-Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons for that Japanese military through the entire Second World War, such as 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 around since 1960, then the Mazda Carol in 1962.Mazda Cosmo SportBeginning inside 1960s, Mazda was inspired from the NSU Ro 80 and made a decision to put an important engineering effort into development in the Wankel rotary engine in order of differentiating itself business Japanese auto companies. The company formed an organization relationship with German company NSU and began with all the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967, and continuing to the day together with the Pro Mazda Championship, Mazda is the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines for that automotive market, largely by way of attrition (NSU and Citroën both lost the fight on the design throughout the 1970s, and prototype Corvette efforts by General Motors never made it to production.This effort to create attention to itself apparently helped, as Mazda rapidly started export its vehicles. Both piston-powered and rotary-powered models made their way worldwide. The rotary models quickly removed for their mix of good power and lightweight weight when comparing piston-engined competitors that required heavier V6 or V8 engines to provide 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 around 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 continues to be the only automaker to obtain produced a Wankel-powered pick up truck. Additionally, it's also the only marque to possess ever offered a rotary-powered bus (the Mazda Parkway, offered only in Japan) or station wagon (in 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 onset on the 1973 oil crisis. As American buyers (and also those in other nations) quickly taken on vehicles with better fuel efficiency, the relatively thirsty rotary-powered models did start to fall out of favor. Combined with being the least-efficient automaker in Japan (regarding productivity), inability to accommodate excess inventory and over-reliance for the U.S. market, the organization suffered a huge decrease of 1975. An already heavily indebted Toyo Kogyo was within the verge of bankruptcy and only agreed to be saved from the intervention of Sumitomo keiretsu group, namely Sumitomo Bank, and also the companies subcontractors and distributors. However, the corporation had not totally turned its back on piston engines, mainly because it continued to create a assortment of four-cylinder models during the entire 1970s. The smaller Familia line specifically 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 generating the rotary engine a choice for your sporting motorist rather than mainstream powerplant. Starting together with the lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing with all the modern RX-8, Mazda has continued its dedication to the present unique powerplant. This switch in focus also resulted inside development of another lightweight sports vehicle, the piston-powered Mazda MX-5 Miata (sold because Eunos and later on Mazda Roadster in Japan), inspired because of the concept 'jinba ittai'. Introduced in 1989 to worldwide acclaim, the Roadster is widely credited with reviving the concept with the small sports vehicle after its decline inside the late 1970s.