Not only was the Mazda Cosmo one of the first-ever production cars to feature a two-rotor Wankel engine, but it was also Mazda's first-ever sports car, spawning a lineage of some of the most ...

The R130 was a very rare model, produced for only three years and with fewer than 1,000 units built. It was also notable as the only front-wheel-drive Mazda model powered by a rotary engine until the ...

Chris Bruce has worked in the automotive industry since 2011 and has written thousands of stories about cars, motorsports, and motorcycles in that time. He has written for Autoblog, Autoviva, CarFax, ...

Mazda began 1920 as Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd, a manufacturer of corks. Toyo didn't make its first vehicle until 11 years later, a three-wheeled motorbike called the Mazda-go. Founder Jujiro Matsuda named ...

Mazda is one of the more prominent car brands in the world that isn't a under a giant corporation. Mazda did partner with Ford for a number of years — from 1979 until 2015 — but it was never an ...

Mazda is most noted for its rotary engine, developed by Felix Wankel in Germany before World War II. But of all its rotary-powered cars, one stands out.