Mazda Automobiles Blog

A total of 107 employees at Mazda North American headquarters in Irvine, California have accepted the company’s buyout offer after a memo was circulated by CEO of North American Operations Jim O’Sullivan in March, according to ...    Read more

In the high-volume compact car segment, the 2012 Toyota Corolla pulled ahead of the pack with 24,804 units sold last month. Just a few hundred units shy of the Corolla was the 2012 Honda Civic, which found its way home to 24,423 customers ...    Read more

My, how the mighty have fallen: in a month where the midsize segment's top contender and bottom third didn't change, competitors from Chrysler, Honda, and Nissan are making things interesting. As we just said, the top spot didn't change at all in April: the Toyota Camry sold 36,820 units, enough to ...    Read more

If we learned anything about compact crossovers late last year, it was that 2012 would shape up to be the year of the fuel economy number, with the key face-off being between the 2012 Honda CR-V, 2013 Mazda CX-5, and 2013 Ford Escape. Ford has released the final EPA fuel economy ...    Read more

The venerable Mazda CX-9 three-row crossover will get an all-new version late next year, and sources are saying it might pack a diesel engine underhood. Auto Express reports that the Mazda CX-9 will come to England when the next model bows late next year, at a price around 30,000 pounds ($48,291). ...    Read more

Mazda plans to bring the all-new 2014 Mazda6 to showrooms in the first quarter of 2013 without the current car's available V-6 engine, Automotive News reports. The news comes as the auto industry is seeing a shift to more efficient and downsized powertrains in midsize sedans. Earlier this month ...    Read more

WardsAuto editors "10 Best Interiors" list for 2012 includes four subcompact or compact models, suggesting yet again that driving a cheap car doesn’t always mean settling for a cheap cabin. This year’s competition included 40 entries; editors do not place rankings on the 10 winners. “We saw a ...    Read more

Been away from your computer this week and missed all the automotive news? We’ve gathered a few of the top stories of the past week for your convenience. Middle Child: 2013 Porsche Cayenne GTS Debuting at Beijing Motor Show Porsche is using the Beijing Motor Show to add yet another model ...    Read more

Though we love cars, motorcycles are just better suited for certain tasks. Riding on a motordrome like the famous Wall of Death in India is one of them. That fact didn't stop one daredevil equipped not with a motorcycle, but a Mazda2 hatchback. The Wall of Death ...    Read more

Take a good look at the Mazda Takeri Concept -- it is essentially a tarted-up version of what the 2014 Mazda 6 will be. After seeing the Takeri in person, it's clear that photographs don't do the car justice. There are interesting and intricate details -- like the lens-free head- and ...    Read more

We saw this coming: after the unveiling of the Takeri Concept last year (pictured here), Mazda had laid the plans pretty clear for its next midsize sedan: now, the automaker has announced that the 2014 Mazda 6 sedan will go on sale next year. Mazda isn't saying too much more ...    Read more

March was a month with little surprises in the midsize sedan segment. The winner's list reads almost exactly the same as last month, and as we said last month, there's something of a natural pecking order among the competitors. Three of the cars from the middle of the pack, the ...    Read more

Good news for those interested in the 2013 Mazda CX-5 crossover: The small SUV has earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick award for its “good” performance in the organization’s frontal offset, side impact, roof strength (in rollover situations), and rear-end collision tests. In 2010, the IIHS ...    Read more

The severity of Mazda’s financial troubles became more apparent late last week after it was discovered that the automaker has plans to reduce its American workforce in the near future. Automotive News recently obtained a company memo detailing Mazda’s plan to reduce its staff of 701 U.S. employees. The process ...    Read more

Call it a battle of the old and new schools, one with a clear winner and a clear loser: we hear that Mazda has discontinued the CX-7 crossover, making room for its newly minted ...    Read more

It would appear that the natural order of midsize sedans has returned, at least for a month: after a January that saw fierce American, Japanese, and Korean competition for the middle of the pack, the competitive results of February 2012 sales returned to normal. We say "middle of the pack" because, ...    Read more

General Motors claims the Chevrolet Camaro and Chevrolet Corvette are responsible for one-third of sports car sales in the U.S. during 2011. Chevrolet sold 88,249 Camaros and 13,164 Corvettes in 2011. The most interesting bit of GM’s claim is the models it compares its two sports cars with. In the sports ...    Read more

Japanese automaker Mazda plans to sell over 1.1 billion new shares in a public offering, which should bring 162.8 billion yen (about $2 billion) for the company. The stock offering will help Mazda reduce its dependence on Japanese-built vehicles, which makes the company vulnerable to the fluctuating value of the ...    Read more

What does the new Mazda CX-5 crossover have in common with Dr. Seuss? Not that much, but it seems Mazda felt the new film adaptation of The Lorax provides the perfect opportunity to talk up its new range of Skyactiv technologies. The new 0:30 and 0:45 second spots feature the CX-5 ...    Read more

Mazda predicts its current fiscal year, which ends the end of March, will mark its fourth straight year of ending in the red. Its financial burden comes from a combination of its global sales slipping to 0.2 percent to 1.25 million units and the yen’s strength against the U.S. dollar ...    Read more

Despite there not being a huge number of product reveals at this year's Chicago Auto Show, there was still plenty of interesting metal on the floor. Here are my favorites. 2012 Mazda MX-5 Miata Special Edition To help celebrate the sale of 900,000 MX-5 Miatas worldwide, Mazada is letting just 450 ...    Read more

The Mazda MX-5 Miata is a well-loved little roadster, and it's no surprise that Mazda has sold 900,000 of them worldwide. To celebrate this milestone, U.S. customers are getting a treat -- the 2012 Mazda MX-5 Miata Special Edition. Although only a cosmetic kit, the Special Edition trim will be the ...    Read more

Mazda had already provided us fuel economy numbers for the 2013 CX-5, but we now have another important set of numbers: U.S. pricing for the all-new crossover. According to the automaker, the MSRP for the CX-5 should start at $21,490, including $795 in destination chargers. That ...    Read more

Mazda has sold 900,000 examples of its MX-5 Miata roadster globally since 1989, and the company plans to celebrate by introducing a Special Edition package for the car. Set to debut next week at the Chicago Auto Show, the new trim pack consists primarily of styling changes for the Japanese ...    Read more

It might be a stretch to call last month’s mid-size sales race a competition: not only did the top two competitors cement their respective places, the margins between the winners and losers were very, very wide. There’s no point in trying to escape the fact ...    Read more