In fact, Mazda models were so successful that the company even produced a pick up truck based on the rotary engine. It opened up a North American branch under the name Mazda North American Operations and it proved to have the winning recipe. Starting with 1970 Mazda began eyeing the biggest market for its cars, the United States.
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The most successful series for Mazda were going to be the R100 and the RX models which eventually led to the company's development. Mazda's paid off because its models quickly gained a name as being powerful yet light vehicles. To this day, Mazda is the only manufacturer of Wankel rotary engines as the other companies (NSU and Citroen) gave up on the design sometime during the 70s. This was done in order to differentiate Mazda from the other Japanese companies. Mazda's first partnership with a foreign company was the one in 1961 with NSU/Wankel with which it produced and developed rotary engines. The first pasenger car came in 1960, the Mazda R360 Coupe. The first 4-wheel truck was the Mazda Romper, introduced in 1958. Production and export resumed in 1949 with the same 3-wheeled truck. This was the only car that was in production until the Second World War broke out when Mazda factories began making rifles.Īfter the war, part of the Mazda plant served as the Hiroshima prefecture for a short while. The first Mazda car, called the Mazda-Go, a three-wheeled truck appeared in 1931, which a year later began exporting to China. in 1920, Mazda started out as a machine-tool manufacturing plant but quickly turned to making vehicles.
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