John Edwards became the youngest champion in the 36-year history of the series with a dominating performance at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday afternoon. He and Jonathan Summerton ended the season tied with 182 points and four victories apiece. Edwards took the title based on the fact that he earned four second-place finishes to Summerton's three runner-up results!
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Mazda Motor Corporation has started production of the Mazda2 - called the Demio in Japan - at the new passenger car plant at AutoAlliance Thailand Co., Ltd. (AAT), its joint venture manufacturing facility with Ford Motor Company.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan--Mazda Motor Corporation today announced that it has commenced production of the Mazda2 (known as Mazda Demio in Japan) at the new passenger car plant at AutoAlliance Thailand Co., Ltd. (AAT), a joint venture manufacturing facility with Ford Motor Company. Mazda2 units produced at AAT will be sold mainly in the ASEAN markets.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan--Mazda Motor Corporation today announced that it has commenced production of the Mazda2 (known as Mazda Demio in Japan) at the new passenger car plant at AutoAlliance Thailand Co., Ltd. (AAT), a joint venture manufacturing facility with Ford Motor Company. Mazda2 units produced at AAT will be sold mainly in the ASEAN markets.
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The diminutive MX-5 roadster has been topping the sales charts of its class for 20 years now. All-round champion in the driving enjoyment department, the MX-5 never really had to worry about the competition.
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Mazda, reporting a smaller-than-predicted loss for the first half of the 2009-10 financial year, said it plans to raise as much as JPY96bn (US$1.1bn) to improve its financial stability and fund the development of less polluting cars.
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Radical Kiyora city car makes home debut with new hi-tech new SKY petrol and diesel engines set to slash fuel economy
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Over 1,600 Mazda Roadsters converged on Miyoshi Proving Ground in Hiroshima prefecture in western Japan
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Mazda will launch new petrol and diesel engines and an automatic transmission at the Tokyo motor show next month.
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Mazda Motor Corporation will showcase the world premiere of its next-generation engine lineup and automatic transmissions at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show, to be held from Saturday, October 24 through Wednesday, November 4, 2009.
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Many Canadian auto writers must be feeling pretty smug at the moment. Why, might you ask? Simple. We have been breathing down manufacturers backs for the last five (maybe more in some cases) years, asking them, no, telling them that they need to bring their euro cars to North America. Lo and behold, some car makers have recently been making huge headlines with the imminent arrival of all-new euro-World Cars.
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Many Canadian auto writers must be feeling pretty smug at the moment. Why, might you ask? Simple. We have been breathing down manufacturers backs for the last five (maybe more in some cases) years, asking them, no, telling them that they need to bring their euro cars to North America. Lo and behold, some car makers have recently been making huge headlines with the imminent arrival of all-new euro-World Cars.
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For the second year in a row, the battle for the Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda title will go down to the final race of the season, and Jonathan Summerton is once again one of three drivers in contention for the championship.
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For the second year in a row, the battle for the Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda title will go down to the final race of the season, and Jonathan Summerton is once again one of three drivers in contention for the championship.
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Having declined to comment earlier in the week on unsourced media reports saying it was about to expand its production capacity in China, Ford on Friday said its joint venture - Changan Ford Mazda Automobile (CFMA) - is building a new US$490m factory in Chongqing for completion in 2012.
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Mazda's motivation behind the new 2010 CX-7 is simple: widen the client base. Here's the deal. The CX-7 compact crossover was launched in 2006 as a 2007 model. Since then, over 8,000 units have been sold across the country. But Mazda is raising the bar - by lowering it. The automaker is aiming for the bottom-end, to be precise. You see, the all-wheel-drive CX-7 with 244-hp turbo engine occupies the middle of the range in the compact crossover segment, leaving the low-end to the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CRV, which respectively account for 15 and 10% of the market.
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Mazda's motivation behind the new 2010 CX-7 is simple: widen the client base. Here's the deal. The CX-7 compact crossover was launched in 2006 as a 2007 model. Since then, over 8,000 units have been sold across the country. But Mazda is raising the bar - by lowering it. The automaker is aiming for the bottom-end, to be precise. You see, the all-wheel-drive CX-7 with 244-hp turbo engine occupies the middle of the range in the compact crossover segment, leaving the low-end to the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CRV, which respectively account for 15 and 10% of the market.
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