The company put its first four-wheeled vehicle—the diminutive R360 kei car—into production in 1960, and things quickly ramped ...

The first passenger car built by Mazda, however, was the R360, which arrived in 1960. The R360 was a two-door, four-seat coupe, belonging to the category known as “kei cars” (a shortened form of the ...

Car weight has become a big issue with the rise of EVs, but Japanese kei cars have had the problem solved for years. These ...

Mazda is a Japanese automaker founded in 1920 ... The early Carols utterly dominated the Japanese kei car segment, taking up a 67% market share despite a number of shortcomings.

You could call it a mark of intent that Mazda’s first volume production car was a coupe. Japan conceived its kei-jidosha ‘light automobile’ regulations in 1949 for much the same reasons ...

Mazda AZ-Wagon Daihatsu Move Canbus Suzuki Wagon R Out of all the kei car manufacturers, Suzuki seemed the most dedicated to this important segment of Japan's auto market. The Alto, the Hustler ...

Performance icons like the crowd-pleasing MX-5 Miata and the rotary-powered RX-7 may be what spring to enthusiasts’ minds when they think of Mazda, but the legendary Japanese brand has produced ...