I didn’t have room to get into the party politics of Mazda at the time, with the switchover from Yamamoto to Norimasa Furuta, the differing attitudes the two had with Ford, and the differing attitudes the two had towards Mazda, including how things might never have been as they were had Yamamoto stayed in charge, but… Read more
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Years ago, a guy sent me an Xbox live friend request because he liked that I had covered all my Forza Horizon rally cars in their period correct liveries.
Sensing someone with a genuine appreciation for automotive culture, i accepted and played with him from time to time over the years, we’d chat about cars, sharing… Read more
It always seemed a little crazy that Mazda was going to have Amati, Eunos, Xedos, and Enfini all in basically the same segment, granted with some geographical segregation for most of them. But, honestly, were they ever going to really need that many luxury brands? Couldn’t they have just picked the best sounding one… Read more
The way this story actually started out was trying to figure out exactly how overextended Mazda was in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s by putting together exactly how many cars it built and sold checked against how many distinct platforms it had. Read more
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