The fascinating Mazda MX-5 RF (RF for Retractable Fastback), will arrive in Australia on 1 February 2017, and people are already visiting dealers to place orders on the fascinatingly shaped sportscar. Mazda MX-5 program manager Nobuhiro Yamamoto, who recently visited us in Australia, explained the reasoning behind the retractable roof, More
Mazda RX-8 is a four-door sports coupe powered by a silky smooth rotary engine that offers tremendous performance. The RX-8 engine is the latest development of the much-loved Mazda 13B. However, it’s been modified in so many ways it can almost be regarded as a different. It also has a More
I got chatting to Nobuhiro Yamamoto, the program manager of the ND series Mazda MX-5, this morning, and discovered we share a lot of timeline history. We both began in the automotive industry within months of one another in 1973, he as an engineer with the Mazda rotary engine research More
Relax, everything’s under control . . . well, almost everything, with the Mazda6 2.5-litre Atenza petrol automatic sedan I’m driving. Already the possessor of the latest in safety technology, the Mazda flagship has been endowed with more of the same, putting the driver and passengers at even more ease than More
Like the Queensland State of Origin rugby league team, the Mazda3 has continued to feed off a winning formula for more than a decade. Regarded by the Japanese auto maker as ‘The Mazda’, the small car has become the brand’s most popular model around the world. The current Mazda3 arrived More
CX-9 is the largest model in Mazda’s Australian SUV range ahead of its compact CX-3 and mid-sized CX-5 siblings. Unlike the two smaller models which sit on top of the sales charts in their respective categories, the ageing CX-9 has struggled to compete against its segment’s big guns headed by More
The Mazda6 origins go back almost 30 years to the Mazda 626 medium-size sedan. A nomenclature change to its present form accompanied its repositioning as the company’s flagship in 2002. Lately midsize SUVs have been assailing the sales charts like mountain goats at the expense of conventional sedans and wagons. More
A day at the races – Melbourne Cup, Magic Millions or Cox Plate – usually involves putting on appropriate clobber and catching a short ride, probably in a limo, to the track. That is unless it’s the Birdsville Races. The idea was to pick up Mazda BT-50 utilities at Leigh More
While Mazda3 and CX-3 have been grabbing all the headlines in the sales race, the smallest model of all, the little Mazda2 hatchback has been quietly working away in the background and keeping its end up. Mazda2 is quite spacious for a small car because its relatively tall body allows More
Mazda has never been a company to follow other auto makers and the updated Mazda3 is a prime example of this. While it has received a mild facelift, the main emphasis is on what you can’t see, with major changes to the steering and suspension systems. Safety, long a strong More
