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Mazda is the automotive industry’s most persistent contrarian. While everyone else chased turbochargers and electrification, Mazda perfected a naturally aspirated petrol engine, brought back the rotary, and built a small SUV that handles better than cars costing twice as much. It has never been the biggest, the fastest, or the most profitable — but it has consistently been the most interesting Japanese manufacturer to follow, and the one most likely to do something unexpected purely on principle. Cars & Code covers Mazda with genuine appreciation for a brand that keeps finding ways to matter.
4 articles about Mazda
At some point in the mid-1980s, a group of Mazda engineers in a room in California got into an argument about where to put the engine. This was not a minor technical discussion. It was a philosophical dispute about what…
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The average new car transaction price in the United States in 2026 is just over $48,000. That is…
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In the early 1970s, the automotive world briefly went mad for the Wankel rotary engine. Mercedes-Benz investigated it.…
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The rotary engine drinks too much fuel? We will engineer a thermal reactor and make it more efficient.…
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