This video from AutoGuide (via YouTube) offers a comprehensive review of the 2011 Mazda 2. It’s a zippy little car, in terms of weight and design, and it does handle well, but be warned: it only cranks out 100 hp.
Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation released a proposal to make black boxes – more properly known as event data recorders, or EDRs – mandatory in all light-duty vehicles. If this sounds like yet another way for the federal government to invade our privacy, consider that such devices are already included in new cars, [...]
In a story that would be almost funny if it weren’t true, Automotive News is reporting that Mazda Motor Corp. has issued a recall on 52,000 2009 and 2010 Mazda6 cars because – get this – spider webs in the emissions system might cause cracks in the fuel tank, leading to leaks. The vehicles affected [...]
We’ve loved Mazda’s kicky cars, even before the company began using the slogan “zoomzoom.” For this week’s Media Monday, here’s the up-close look at the 2011 Mazda 6.
Mazda Motor Corp’s new design chief, HIkuo Maeda, is known by the nickname “Speedy,” because of his notorious lead food, both on and off the race course. In fact, reporters from the Automotive News Japan offices believe he might be the only standing auto executive to have had his driver’s license revoked more than once. [...]