10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT... MAZDA MX-5
The Mazda Motor Corporation started life just over 100 years ago on the 30th January 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Company producing cork for gaskets, insulation and cushioning material. It was not until 1931 that the first vehicle – the Mazda-Go three-wheel truck – rolled off the production line, and it was another 29 years before Mazda produced its first passenger car, the tiny R360 coupé in 1960.
A company with global ambitions, exports to Europe started just seven years later. However, sales in the UK only started on a small scale in 1967 with just nine cars being imported in two years through Normand Garages, part of the Lyons food chain. Industria (London) Ltd took over the import of Mazda and officially launching the Mazda marque on the 30th September 1969
