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Mazdaspeed Is Really Truly Once-And-For-All Dead, For Real This Time
Mazda’s efforts to shift upmarket have been critically successful. But commercially they are, well, less than ideal. Mind you, in 2020 “less than ideal” seems to be the baseline for practically every automaker, so we won’t knock the company for that. What we will knock them for, however, is leaving Mazdaspeed behind.
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Mississippi Hero Saves A Stranger’s Mazda RX-7 From A Flood
Austin Owens is a hero. Yesterday, after seeing a picture online of one of his dream cars — a Mazda RX-7 — sitting in a nearby garage that was actively flooding, Owens took action to save a random person’s car. He and a friend drove down several flooded roads near Biloxi, Mississippi to place bricks…
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Mazda’s Next Rotary Engine Likely To Be In The MX-30
We first heard about this thing almost two years ago now: a new rotary engine from Mazda. But not apparently for the RX-9, if and when that ever happens. No, this new rotary will likely act as a range-extender in the upcoming MX-30, according to Automotive News.
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Cars Used To Come With Rear-Only ABS Brakes And That’s Just Strange
Every car in the U.S. after 2011 has had to be equipped with electronic stability control thanks to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 126. This means they all have four-wheel antilock brakes. But not too long ago, many cars had no ABS at all; More interesting, though, is an intermediate phase between those two periods—a…