Mazda are a Japanese motor car manufacturing company. Mazda The name Mazda comes from 'Ahura Mazda', the highest Zoroastrian God of reason who granted wisdom and united man, nature and the other gods. Mazda was founded by Jujiro Matsuda in 1920 as 'Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd' which started manufacturing machine tools in 1929, and in 1931 produced its first motor vehicle, a three-wheel truck called the Mazdago. The first car produced by Mazda was the 1960 Mazda R360 Coupe, a two-door passenger vehicle, while in 1962 appeared the four-door Mazda Carol. In 1989 Mazda produced the Mazda MX-5, which quickly became famous as the world's best selling roadster. In 1979 the American motor car company Ford acquired a ten percent stake in Mazda and the company proceeded as a joint Japanese-American venture. Research Mazda
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