Mazda has a long and proud history of doing things differently from other automakers – a spirit manifested, among other ways, by its embrace of the rotary engine. But that unusual powertrain technology isn't just another unconventional choice for Mazda. It's at the core of its history, and has been for 50 years now.

To hear Mazda tell the story, half a century ago it was known for little more than minuscule passenger cars and work trucks. It wanted to branch out, and knew it needed to do something different if it was going to challenge the established players.

So in 1961 it licensed an usual engine design from Wankel GmbH and NSU Motorenwerke. Unfortunately, the design didn't work and the engine seized, so Mazda's chief engineer Kenichi Yamamoto put together a team called the "47 Samurai" who achieved what no other automaker could and made the rotary engine viable.

The resulting Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S became the first rotary-powered production car on May 30, 1967 – 50 years ago today. And while the engine is sadly no longer in production, it had a good run, with nearly 2 million built. Included among them were three generations of RX-7, another for the RX-8, and numerous other vehicles stretching from a 26-passenger bus to the quad-rotor 787B that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1991. Now if only it'd bring it back.


Source:
http://www.autoreportng.com/2017/05/mazda-at-50-timeline-of-its-car.html

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chai God.

Nice looking cars

It is always good to stand out in whatever you do, that was a nice concept from Mazda

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Are you now advertising for Mazda?

This car

Hehehe!! This just brought back memories of when "Mazda 626" was my dream car.......

Mazda is doing well. Don't know why most Nigerians don't like patronizing the company

Coooool

Mazda has bad reputation in the North Nigeria due to the fact that her mechanics are not familiar with its working principles...

Mazda has some lovely cars now

chai! ego ne kwu

They produce nice cars now, I love their CX-9 SUV

Machine

Make sense

Where is Mazda 626

Almost bought the hatchback back then

Mazda cars boast of more features than Toyota and Honda models in the same categories.

You can only know if you've used one before.

gbaskiboy:
chai! ego ne kwu

eluquenson:
They produce nice cars now, I love their CX-9 SUV

Caustics:
chai God.

samuel19222:
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smithsydny:
This car

Kingxway:

Chuknovski:
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All these ones get bear bear for their puna ooooo chai!

in some states madza 323 or madza 626 are used as taxis, asides that its not a brand dat sells like Toyota

I wonder why, though they make pretty good cars

Hd

Happy Celebration @ Mazda

This Cars Are CLASSIC

This drive is cool that red car

gbaskiboy:
All these ones get bear bear for their puna ooooo chai!

ur own na jungle

Benz or nothing

Ok

Madza .....zoom zoom zoom


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CKEPamFEkM


Zoom.,....zoom....zoom...zooom....yes...zoom

;Ddazza wee roll

gbaskiboy:
All these ones get bear bear for their puna ooooo chai!

Cars!