From time to time, let us discuss and focus on a car brand the world loves. For the headstart, I chose the car and the brand I first saw this morning, Mazda. Mazda is a global car manufacturer that is based in Hiroshima, Japan. The history of Mazda dates back in the 1920's with a different name, Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd. The original company supplies weapon to the Japanese government during the World War II. The first transportation vehicle the company made was Mazda-Go. Succeeding years proved to be good for auto manufacturing for the company.
In 1984, the company officially adapted the name Mazda. Mazda, literally means "great wisdom" and is also conveyed to the Zoroastrianism God, Ahura Mazda. Now if you are playing International Ragnarok Online, you will know who is Ahura Mazda. Throughout the years, Mazda has fought for originality and uniqueness of their vehicle. They put major effort in developing what we know now as the Wankel Rotary Engine. The Wankel rotor is an internal combustion engine that uses a rotor in converting pressure into a rotating motion.
But their cars suffered a major lost in sales when the oil crises of the world came. The oil-hungry rotary cars reached a down sales in favor of the American oil efficient cars. They thrived with the crisis by taking their rotary cars a bit down on production and made cars of piston engines. Mazda focused on the sports car category and gained total popularity with their release of the RX-7 and more followed.
Through ups and downs on financial problems, Mazda stood up and proved to be one of the world's best car maker. They have teamed up with Ford to create better car technologies that the world will surely love.
This year Mazda plans to release its first hydrogen fueled hybrid car, the Premacy Hydrogen RE compact minivan, something we should all watch for.
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