In recent years English director writer, Richard Mazda, has re-introduced New York audiences to the Grand Guignol.

Some models ( mostly the police version ) have a Wankel-type engine ( like the Mazda RX-7 ), though development of this engine has since stopped.

Beginning with the limited-production Cosmo Sport of 1967 and continuing to the present day with the RX-8, Mazda has become the sole manufacturer of Wankel-type engines mainly by way of attrition ( NSU and Citroën both gave up on the design during the 1970s, and prototype Corvette efforts by General Motors never made it to production.

Starting with the lightweight RX-7 in 1978 and continuing with the modern RX-8, Mazda has continued its dedication to this unique powerplant.

) Ford has also lent Mazda some of its capacity when needed: the Mazda 121 sold in Europe and South Africa was, for a time, a variant of the Ford Fiesta built in plants in Europe and South Africa.

Mazda has also made an effort in the past to sell some of Ford's cars in Japan, mainly through its Autorama dealer group.

BusinessWeek explained the alliance between Ford and Mazda has been a very successful one, with Mazda saving perhaps $ 90 million a year in development costs and Ford " several times " that, and that a sale of its stake in Mazda would be a desperate measure.

The design credo Mazda has used across the three generations of the MX5's development was the phrase, which translates loosely into English as " rider ( jin ) horse ( ba ) as one body ( ittai )".

The most notable pistonless rotary engine, the Wankel rotary engine has also been used in cars ( notably by NSU in the Ro80 and by Mazda in a variety of cars such as the RX-series which includes the popular RX-7 and RX-8 ), as well as in some experimental aviation applications.

Although many manufacturers licensed the design, including Citroën with their M35 and GS Birotor, using engines produced by Comotor, General Motors, which seems to have concluded that the Wankel engine was slightly more expensive to build than an equivalent reciprocating engine, although claiming having solved the fuel economy issue, but failed in obtaining acceptable exhaust emissions, and Mercedes-Benz which used it for their C111 concept car, only Mazda has produced Wankel engines in large numbers.

In the racing world, Mazda has had substantial success with two-rotor, three-rotor, and four-rotor cars.

The Mazda RX-7 has won more IMSA races in its class than any other model of automobile, with its one hundredth victory on September 2, 1990.

Since 1991, the professionally organized Star Mazda Series has been the most popular format for sponsors, spectators, and upward bound drivers.

With a number of these engines mounted on aircraft, as of 10 December 2006 the National Transportation Safety Board has only seven reports of incidents involving aircraft with Mazda engines, and none of these were a failure due to design or manufacturing flaws.

Peter Garrison, contributing editor for Flying magazine, has said that " In my opinion, however, the most promising engine for aviation use is the Mazda rotary.

The winged symbol with a male figure who was formerly regarded by European scholars as Ahura Mazda has been shown to represent the royal xvarənah, the personification of royal power and glory.

Ford Motor Company has a plant here, assembling the Ford F-Series trucks and Ford Escape and Mazda Tribute SUVs.

* The Mazda MX-5 has been available since the 2006 model year with an optional power retractable hardtop, in lieu of the standard folding-textile soft-top.

He drives a red 1993 Mazda RX-7, and has a custom-builted 1970 Dodge Charger in his garage.

Itochu has partnered with Mazda and EnerDel to produce a solar-charged Mazda2.

Mazda is in 2012 releasing new petrol engines under the brand name SkyActiv with 14: 1 compression ratio, to be used in all Mazda vehicles by 2015.

As a result of GM's toying with the Wankel rotary engine, as used by Mazda of Japan, an export agreement was initiated in 1975.

This type of engine was most notably used in the Mazda RX-8, the earlier RX-7, and other models.

As with its leadership in Wankel technology, Mazda remains ( so far ) the only automaker to have used a Miller-cycle engine in the automotive realm.

Zoroaster claimed that Ahura Mazda was not an omnipotent God, but used the aid of humans in the cosmic struggle against Angra Mainyu.

In Manichaeism, the name Ohrmazd Bay (" god Ahura Mazda ") was used for the primal figure, the " original man " and emanation of the Father of Greatness ( in Manicheism called Zurvan ) through whom after he sacrificed himself to defend the world of light was consumed by the forces of darkness.

In Sogdian Buddhism, ( Sogdian was written without a consistent representation of vowels ) was the name used in place of Ahura Mazda.

Mazda Motors famously used an Ishikawa diagram in the development of the Miata sports car, where the required result was " Jinba Ittai " ( Horse and Rider as One — jap.

It was adapted by Mazda for their KJ-ZEM V6, used in the Millenia sedan, and in their Eunos 800 sedan ( Australia ) luxury cars.

* The Wankel engine, a rotary engine which uses neither pistons nor valves, best known for being used by Mazda in the RX-7 and RX-8 sports cars.

This was done to keep the engine used in Mazda vehicles to maintain a lower engine displacement based tax level in Japan.

When used in conjunction with Mazda ’ s start-stop system, i-Stop, the company claims fuel savings of up to 10 %.

Mazda i-stop used in their Mazda3 / Axela line ( in Europe and JDM ) uses combustion to restart their engine by sensing the position of the piston in the cylinder.

Torsion bar suspensions are used on combat vehicles or tanks like the T-72, Leopard 1, Leopard 2 and Abrams ( many tanks from late in World War II used this suspension ), and on trucks and SUVs from Ford, Dodge, GM, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Nissan, Isuzu and Toyota.

The V6 engine was impressive for the time, belonging to the Mazda K-series, which were used in a range of Mazda vehicles.

For the rear suspension of the MX-3, Mazda used its proprietary Twin-Trapezoidal Link ( TTL ) technology.

TTL has been used on a range of other Mazda vehicles before and since the MX-3.

Ford's increased influence during the 1990s allowed Mazda to claim another distinction in history, having maintained the first foreign-born head of a Japanese car company, Henry Wallace.

In New Zealand, the Telstar, like the Laser, was assembled locally from 1983 ( replacing the highly successful Cortina range ) at Ford's original Seaview plant near Lower Hutt and later at the Ford / Mazda joint venture plant in Wiri, Auckland, called Vehicle Assemblers of New Zealand ( VANZ ).

During that time, Ford's marketing team had deemed that a front-wheel drive platform ( borrowed Mazda GD and GE platforms ) would have lower costs for production, and also because the platform had been gaining popularity with the consumers.

The Japanese 1. 3 and 1. 5 petrol engines are not available, but Ford's 1. 25-litre 16 valve Sigma engine is used, and Mazda's 1. 4 and 1. 6 petrol, plus Fords 1. 4 TDCi diesel are offered, but called 1. 4 CDTi by Mazda.

At one time in 1980s it was the world largest integrated CAD system, spanning the US, Japan ( Mazda was Ford's subsidiary / partner ), and Germany.

Mazda Y4 engine ( called 1. 4 MZ-CD or 1. 4 CiTD ) is a rebadged PSA DV4 engine, produced in the PSA engine plant in Trémery or Ford's engine plant in Dagenham.

The Ranger and Mazda B-Series were manufactured at Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota, at Louisville Assembly Plant in Louisville, Kentucky until 1999 and Edison Assembly in Edison, New Jersey until the plant's closing in 2004.

A Ford Fiesta, assembled at Ford's Valencia plant barely modified, but rebadged as the Mazda 121, was also sold in some markets after 1996 ( where the Demio was sold at the same time with its original name ).

Although also similar to Ford's own design, Mazda engineers said this is a revival of the " E multi-link ".

In the 1994 model year, to save costs related to the chicken tax, Mazda introduced a badge engineered version of the Ford Ranger, adopting Ford's vehicle design and engines.