The design team at Mazda North America is set to take on a new chief shortly with former Volkswagen ink-man Derek Jenkins stepping up to take the reigns.

No stranger to the game, Jenkins has spent the last 15 years working for the Volkswagen group. In this time he worked on the Audi A8, Audi A2 [...]

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Maybe it’s because they’ve been passing around the red lollies in Mazda’s design bunker that its latest styling exercise, the Kiyora, looks so ‘off the wall’. Maybe it’s the sugar and the red food die that’s responsible for those lines. And maybe that’s why its name sounds like a famous Aussie cordial.  [...]

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Good news for MX-5 lovers with Mazda’s design boss Lauren Van den Acker recently revealing to AutoCar that the next iteration of Mazda’s iconic roadster will see a substantial redesign before it hits dealerships sometime in 2012.

Van den Acker has no qualms about what the new MX-5 requires;
“The next MX-5 needs to be a big [...]

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Franz von Holzhausen may not be a name most of you will instantly recognise, but if you’ve been paying attention to Mazda’s recent (and striking) concept cars like the Furai, Taiki and Nagare then you’ll no doubt be familiar with the designer’s work. He’s been responsible for the styling of every concept [...]

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Word is that an aggressive-looking MPS version of the new 3 is definitely on the cards, into which Mazda is expected to shovel the 5-cylinder turbo from the Ford Focus XR5, offering in the vicinity of 190kW.

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The acid induced renderings of the latest Mazda concept now have a name and shape. The name is Kazamai and it comes from the Japanese word meaning “swirling crosswinds,” which have evidently inspired the form of this compact crossover. It will debut at the Moscow International Automobile Salon in August.

It is at this point [...]

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Not content with offering viable, believable concepts like every other manufacturer, Mazda are set to bring yet another figment of my Hot Wheels loving childhood to the international motorshow stage. This time, it’ll be the Russian customs officers pulling aside the Mazda designers with a request to please hand over whatever they’ve been smoking.

The Moscow [...]

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Mazda’s ever-popular MX-5 is due for a facelift next year, and designers and dealers alike are at odds over what it will look like. While the NC MX-5 has drawn criticism from some quarters regarding its “soapdish” styling, that hasn’t stopped it from being one of Mazda’s more profitable models. Dealers in particular are especially [...]

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Mazda have confirmed that they are bringing their futuristic Hakaze Concept car to the 2008 Melbourne Motor Show, where it will make its Australian debut. The Hakaze is another concept from Mazda’s stunning ‘Nagare’ series (Nagare means “flow” and “the embodiment of movement” ) and the second in the series to make an Australian appearance. [...]

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Just two weeks shy of its Detroit Motor Show unveiling, images of Mazda’s Furai (means “sound of the wind”) have been leaked onto the net. Not your average concept, the Furai is a fully functioning ethanol fuelled racer. Powered by a triple-rotor 20B rotary engine, the Furai has the benefit of close to 336kW/450hp when [...]

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Mazda are moving all of their “good stuff” over to North America in time for the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), to be held in Detroit from January 13. Mazda fans will be keen to see the heavily revised RX-8 in the flesh for the first time, along with radical new Furai “environmental [...]

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Mazda’s concept cars of late have been interesting to say the least. The Mazda Taiki Concept is no exception and is the fourth in a consecutive series of concept vehicles based around the original ‘Nagare’ design.

Nagare is Japanese for flow, and Taiki means atmosphere, put the two together and you have a futuristic front engined, [...]

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