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Spring Is Here and We're Sprung for Nostalgics
The long winter of our discontent is over, for today is the first day of spring. If you live in the northern half of the country, rejoice! The temperature is on the rise and it’s actually still bright out at … Continue reading
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Leap for Joy: Holy Jumping Mazdas!
In honor of Leap Year, here’s a car chase from a 1979 Japanese movie whose title translates as “The Man Who Stole the Sun.” It’s got a plot, but we haven’t seen it, so let’s just cut to the chase … Continue reading
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Badge Engineering
Here’s a great piece on Neatorama about how some of the world’s most recognizable automobile brands got their logos. For instance, Mitsubishi’s logo combined the crests of two families. The diamonds came from the Iwasakis, a former samurai clan to … Continue reading
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Mazda Rotary 40th Anniversary Oz-Bound
First Japan got one. Then we got one. Now our mates down under have their very own Mazda RX-8 40th anniversary edition. If you haven’t been following the saga of Mazda’s year-long rotary engine birthday bash, check here. The spec … Continue reading
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Mazda Carol Hot Rod!
In last week’s Tokyo Autosalon report. we made mention of a supercool Mazda Carol-based hot rod. Well, we have some more details on it now, it was built by students at the…*deep breath*…Shizuoka Professional College of Automobile Technology. Especially notable … Continue reading
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Cafe MOCA
UPDATE: Although Mazda USA and Mazdaspeed are supportive of MOCA and in fact emailed its own members about it, they are not affiliated with MOCA. Except in a love for all things Mazda, that is. Sorry for the confusion! Heads … Continue reading
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Chevy RX-7….or Mazda Corvette….or whatever
So, are you one of the people who were pissed off that GM never produced the rotary-engined Corvette? Wanna take matters into your own hands? Wanna show GM how it’s done? If so, then we have a solution for you!
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'67 Toyo Kogyo Lineup, No Corks
Over at online magazine Winding Road, they’ve posted the pages of a 1967 Toyo Kogyo brochure. If you’ve been paying attention, that’s the manufacturer Mazda was formerly known as, and it made corks. Each company had its humble beginnings. For … Continue reading
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Mazdafarians in Amsterdam
If you still have wayward champagne corks lying around from your new year’s eve party, now would be a good time to reflect on those bottle stoppers, especially if you’re a Mazda owner. That’s because before there was Mazda, there … Continue reading
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2007, We Hardly Knew Ye
Well, it’s here, the final day of the year. Now before we all get hammered and pretend we know the words to “Auld Lang Syne,” let’s take a look back at all the nostalgic car happenings that took place during … Continue reading
FEATURES: LA Auto Show
New article up. A couple of classics showed up at the ongoing LA Auto Show. [LINK]
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RX-3 Redux?
Rumors (very, very iffy ones) are swirling in the ether about a Mazda RX-3 revival. Discovered on Ben Kraal‘s blog, Here’s a hideous Photoshop speculation of what such a car might not look like at all. If the platform idea … Continue reading
Racing Sim
Will Wright is the designer of the hugely popular life simulator video game, The Sims, in which you can command your virtual characters to eat, sleep, defecate and even play other video games, but the one thing they can’t seem … Continue reading
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Mazda Parkway: Rotary Power for you and 25 of your best friends
One of the first articles we posted here on GrandJDM was a quick piece on some of the more oddball rotary-engined concoctions that Mazda cooked up in its early years (here). The most unexpected one was of course the 13B … Continue reading
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Mazda Design Contest, Part II
A few weeks ago we told you about the Mazda Design Challenge, which allowed you – the user! – to submit a design for the Mazda 3 of 2018. Well the submissions are in, and now the top 10, as … Continue reading
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How to Make a Rotary Engine
Regulars on this site will know that Mazda celebrates the 40th anniversary of its rotary engine this year. The official birthday was on May 30, marked by the when Mazda’s first pistonless car, the 1967 Cosmo Sport, went on sale … Continue reading
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RX5 Cosmo: Mazda’s rotary shiny disco ball
We’ve covered a lot of the early rotary Mazda history, especially the racing history of the Cosmo 110S, Familia Coupe, RX2 Capella and RX3 Savanna GT. It would lead you to believe that Mazda rotaries were all about performance and … Continue reading
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Bring Back the Mazda RX-3
Mazda have utilised Facebook to launch a design competition, charging entrants with the task of determining what the Mazda 3 of 2018 will look like.The good thing about this design comp is that, frankly, it’s not much of one! If … Continue reading
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Uncle Mazda Wants You!
…to help design the new Mazda 3 of 2018. The winner will have work with Mazda USA designers to have his or her design modeled into a life-size concept to be shown at the LA Auto Show this November with … Continue reading
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Gettin’ Back on the Wagon
Wagons are something you don’t see a lot of in tuner circles, and even more so among the classic JDM community. Ray Garbalosa’s RX-4 wagon is a fine example of what can be done when you want something classic but … Continue reading
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