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.

He laid out a new direction for the brand including the design of the present Mazda marque ; he laid out a new product plan to achieve synergies with Ford, and he launched Mazda's digital innovation program to speed up the development of new products.

At this time Hall hired designer Mark Jordan to join the newly formed Mazda design studio in Southern California.

Thus, under head of project Masakatsu, the concept development was turned into a competition between the Mazda design teams in Tokyo and California.

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.

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.

Styling was developed via design competitions in Mazda tradition among its design studios in Japan, the US, and Europe.

The new design would be based on a totally new platform introduced to Ford by Japanese car manufacturer and Ford partner Mazda.

The Probe GT's suspension system was based on a Mazda design, but its tuning was different and included nitrogen-gas pressurized front and rear struts, with stabilizer bars.

The original Elan is commonly credited as being the design inspiration for the highly successful 1989 Mazda MX-5 ( Mazda Miata in North America ).

Car design for Mazda, Japan.

* Mazda E engine # E3, an evolution of Mazda's xC design

It uses SFI fuel injection, has 4 valves per cylinder with VVT, features fracture-split forged powder metal connecting rods and a one-piece cast camshaft and has direct-acting mechanical bucket ( DAMB ) tappets, these design aspects differentiating the AJ-V6 from the Ford and Mazda versions.

The Mazda B-series is a " non-interference " design, meaning that breakage of its timing belt does not result in damage to valves or pistons, because the opening of the valves, the depth of the combustion chamber and ( in some variants ) the shaping of the piston crown allow sufficient clearance for the open valves in any possible piston position.

Although never produced in volume, the 40A was a valuable testbed for Mazda engineers, and quickly demonstrated two serious challenges to the feasibility of the design: " chatter marks " in the housing, and heavy oil consumption.

This was the end of the line for this engine design: the next Luce was rear wheel drive and Mazda never again made a front wheel drive rotary vehicle.

Mazda went back to the 4 port intake design similar to what was used in the 74-78 13B.

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

The Mazda6 was the first example of the company's new Stylish, Insightful, and Spirited design philosophy followed by the Mazda2 in December 2002, the RX-8 in August 2003, the Mazda3 in January 2004, the Mazda5 in the summer of 2005, the MX-5 in October 2005, and the Mazda CX-7 in November 2006.

The Mazda 6 was praised for its edgy handsome design, communicative steering and tight suspension.

The front fascia and bumper were changed with a floating foglight design and the lower air intake opening was reshaped to better resemble the typical " Mazda five-point face.

In October 2008 Mazda released pictures and video showing the next generation design of the Mazda3.

On this basis, our already substantial budget for research and development has been further increased in recent years in order to finance the continuing engineering and design work essential to Leesona's future growth in sales and earnings.

Previously known as Jefferson Arms, Kodiak has given this 11-shot hammerless job an exceptionally fine stock design, and the 260 is the first autoloader to handle

When mold has more than one design cavity, make individual paper patterns.

If design head has a deep cavity, clay lid will be quite thick at this point ; ;

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

This, plus the habit of many schools of simply adding interior design to the many subjects of their home economics department, yet, nevertheless, claiming that they teach interior design, has contributed to the low repute of many university courses in interior design.

The design of orthographies has received much less attention from linguists than the problem deserves.

Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.

" Light's Vision ", as it has been termed, has meant that the initial design of Adelaide required little modification as the settlement grew and prospered.

* Senior Architect / Designer: Licensed architect, or non-registered graduate with more than 10 years of experience ; has a design or technical focus and is responsible for significant project activities.

The CQR design has a hinged shank, allowing the anchor to turn with direction changes rather than breaking out, while other plough types have a rigid shank.

In recent years there has been something of a spurt in anchor design.

* The Spade is a French design which has proved successful since 1996.

While the 68000 family has a 32-bit design, the 68000 used in several early models is generally referred to as 16-bit.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

Li ' l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing.

He has been honored with a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, a J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, a TED Prize ( named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design ), and many other awards and honors.

While adhering to the standard ternary design of a dance movement ( scherzo-trio-scherzo, or minuet-trio-minuet ), the scherzo section has an elaborate internal structure ; it is a complete sonata form.

Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language (" it's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work ").