Mazda Trivia

NarendZORCE · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: Mazda Trivia

� Mazda is the only remaining manufacturer of Wankel rotary engine automobiles, and is the only manufacturer to produce 3-rotor Wankel engines for production.

� Mazda is the only manufacturer to ever produce a Miller cycle engine, as used in the Mazda Millenia.

��Mazda is the only manufacturer to produce a rotary pickup truck (B-series based), bus (1974 Mazda Parkway) and stationwagon (Mazda RX3 wagon).

��Mazda is the only Asian/American automaker to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, which the company accomplished in 1991 with their rotary-powered 787B. It is the only car not powered by a piston engine to win at Le Mans.

��Mazda had the distinction of having the first foreign CEO to head a Japanese/American car company: former Ford Motor Company CFO, Scottish-born Henry Wallace in 1996. Many Japanese media outlets at the time reacted in shock and horror, and wondered if Ford would cut jobs. He was followed by Ford President James Miller in 1997, and Mark Fields in 1999 until 2001, when he was tapped to lead Ford's Premier Automotive Group and handed the reins to Lewis Booth. Lewis Booth went back to Ford in 2003 and Mazda Director Hisakazu Imaki is now CEO.

� The Zoom Zoom Zoom song by Serapis Bey (used in current commercials in Europe and Japan) was recorded long before it became the official song for Mazda. It was recorded for the movie Only The Strong which was released in 1993.

��While television ads for Mazda automobiles in the United States use a pronunciation where the initial vowel sound is similar to the word "mod", Canadian Mazda advertisements pronounce the company's name with the initial "a" sound of the word "can". However, both initial vowel sounds in the company's name were derived from its original Persian pronunciation of the name's first and second A.
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

The company's name, "Mazda," derives from Ahura Mazda, a god of the earliest civilizations in West Asia. We have interpreted Ahura Mazda, the god of wisdom, intelligence and harmony, as the symbol of the origin of both Eastern and Western civilizations, and also as a symbol of automobile culture. It incorporates a desire to achieve world peace and the development of the automobile manufacturing industry. It also derives from the name of our founder, Jujiro Matsuda.
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NarendZORCE · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

Ahura Mazda is the Avestan language name for an exalted divinity of ancient proto-Indo-Iranian religion that was subsequently declared by Zarathustra (Zoroaster) to be the one uncreated creator of all (God).

Ahura Mazda is 'Auramazdah' in Old Persian, 'Hourmazd' or 'Hormizd' in Middle Persian as well as Parthian and 'Aramazd' in the Armenian language. New Persian language usage varies, but 'Hourmazd', 'Hormuzd' and 'Ormazd' are common transliterations.

The Zoroastrian faith is described by its adherents as Mazdayasna, the worship of Mazda. In Zoroastrian tradition, to worship a lesser divinity is to worship Ahura Mazda, since all the divinities are but a manifestation of the Creator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda
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MG Man · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

Mazda spelled backwards is adzaM

Narend, isn't mazda the only Japanese manufacturer to win LeMans??? I know it was the first, in any case
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Turbodrive · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:59 am Post subject:

Yup we got a winner here!
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MG Man · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:23 am Post subject:

Also makers of the only japanese sportscar with a German heart
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