Mazda3 ganha facelift

ATENÇÃO: Use óculos de grau para poder enxergar as diferenças do Mazda3.

Versão sedã também mudou.

Depois de planos em vender novamente seus carros no Brasil, a Mazda mostrou seu principal modelo renovado, o Mazda3, que será vendido aqui junto com o Mazda2.

O carro ganhou diferenças quase inenxergáveis que não dão para perceber. Ele ganhou rodas de 16 e 17 polegadas, e novos para-choques dianteiro e traseiro. O carro ganhou acabamento em couro com detalhes cromados com display de informações.

A linha 2012 tem motor 1.6 com câmbio automático de 4 marchas. Outras quatro versões novas foram mostradas: 2.3 de 260 cv (manual de seis marchas), 2.0 de 150 cv (com start-stop), 2.0 de 150 cv (câmbio automático de cinco marchas) e 1.6 de 105 cv (câmbio manual de cinco marchas).

Por fim, a versão antiga será vendida no Brasil, por que a nova é exclusiva da Ásia e da Europa.

P.S.: O blog ficou desatualizado por 3 dias por causa de problemas ao fazer login no blogger.

Keko é homologada pela Ford e pela Mazda Austrália

Capota Marítima Mazda

A Keko Acessórios, líder brasileira em personalização automotiva, acaba de incluir um novo mercado no seu rol de exportações para atender as grandes montadoras de veículos em projetos OEM (linha de montagem) e P&A (peças e acessórios originais). A empresa foi homologada pela Ford e pela Mazda Austrália para o fornecimento de capotas marítimas originais para equipar as picapes Ranger e BT-50 no mercado australiano, sendo que no caso da BT-50 a Keko fornecerá as capotas na linha de montagem da picape. A conquista representa um importante passo para a companhia, que até então atendia os consumidores australianos apenas com peças de reposição no aftermarket.

O contrato foi selado pelo período de três anos e o primeiro lote de produtos embarcou recentemente no Porto de Rio Grande com destino ao Porto de Brisbane, na Austrália. Neste primeiro momento, a Keko irá fornecer capotas marítimas lisas e para instalação junto com o santantônio original em picapes cabine dupla. Mas já existem tratativas para o fornecimento de capotas também para as versões cabine simples e estendida. A negociação foi concretizada através de um distribuidor que possui sede na Austrália e mantém operações na Europa, África do Sul e Estados Unidos.

“Essa é mais uma importante conquista para a Keko, que sinaliza a confiabilidade e a credibilidade que as montadoras depositam na marca e nos produtos. Aos poucos, vamos avançando no mercado externo e nos posicionando junto aos grandes players mundiais da cadeia automotiva”, afirma Silvano Gil de Oliveira, supervisor de exportação da Keko.

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster Review and Pictures

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Roadster Black Tuned special edition is based on the premium RS RHT and VS RHT model grades that feature Mazda's groundbreaking power retractable hard top (RHT). The BLACK TUNED theme is reflected in stylish special features including a Brilliant Black roof and door mirrors, and Gun Metallic 17-inch alloy wheels. Interior quality is also enhanced, with the seats and steering wheel covered in black leather with sand-colored stitching.

 Mazda Black Tuned Roadster Picture

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

Mazda Black Tuned Roadster

New 2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive ;Launch Review in Pictures

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive

2012 Mazda3 SP20 Skyactive Review

OVERVIEW-- Conventional but clever SP20 a rational alternativeMazda has introduced to the Aussie market a car that threatens the eco-friendly credibility of hybrids and diesels alike — and it's a conventional petrol-engined car with a conventional auto transmission.

Slotting into a revamped Mazda3 range, the Mazda3 SP20 SKYACTIV piggybacks off the mainstream, volume-selling models while offering buyers something a little bit different. It's a car that boasts many of the fuel-saving features of the smarter diesels and hybrids around, but also delivers native efficiency from the engine, without any concessions affecting driveability.

Anyone off the street could step into the SP20 and drive it without ever twigging that this is a car that can reduce fuel use in most situations by as much as a third. There are just two tell-tales, the trip computer's readout of fuel consumption and the I-Stop system that shuts down the engine when the car is brought to a halt. The latter is one of two features — the other being electrically-assisted steering — that conserve fuel and aren't integral to the engine. While the electric steering has been introduced to the entire Mazda3 range, for the moment the I-Stop system is exclusive to the SP20, which is the sporty eco hero of the range.

Mazda expects the SP20 to account for as much as 15 per cent of the updated Mazda3 range and the importer claims that number is the effective ceiling, given supply constraints for the SKYACTIV-G engine powering the frugal variant.

Both the SP20 and the rest of the revised Mazda3 range are being launched here at a time that Mazda wouldn't have chosen in better circumstances. This time of year, according to the importer, sales are slow and the market only begins to pick up properly in the last couple of months for the year.

As we reported recently, the Mazda3 lost ground to the Holden Commodore in September [2011] sales, mostly as Mazda ran out the superseded model, leaving it with relatively little stock on the ground in anticipation of the new model. That's a good result for Mazda — a successful runout — but comes at the cost of breaking the Commodore's 16-year stranglehold on the title of Australia's most popular car.

PRICE AND EQUIPMENT-- Unrest in the small-car segment drives lower prices, more equipmentMazda has reacted to the growing competition in the already crowded small car segment by shaving prices and adding value here and there in the Mazda3 range.

As the entry-level model the Mazda3 Neo starts the ball rolling at $20,330 with manual transmission. Not only is that price $1000 cheaper than before, but the Neo is now claimed by Mazda to represent added value worth $1790. This is basically contingent on the base-grade's new 15-inch alloy wheels and body-colour door handles. Automatic transmission adds $2000 to the purchase price.

Mazda has dropped the six-disc CD changer previously fitted to the Maxx Sport and the manual variant is now priced at $24,490 —$1870 cheaper than before. Based on the lower-spec audio system, Mazda advises the difference in value is $1815 only, with some of that resulting from the new standard features: auto-on/off headlights and rain-sensing wipers. As for the Neo, the price of the automatic transmission option is $2000.

The Mazda3 Diesel is priced at $27,360 and both the price reduction ($1870) and the difference in value ($1815) are the same as for the Maxx Sport — and for the same reasons. There is still no automatic transmission option for the Diesel.

Now priced $1630 lower ($31,490), the SP25 offers $2885 extra value, the importer claims. Extra equipment in this level of trim comprises bi-xenon headlights, sliding centre armrest, smart (keyless) entry with push-button starting. Complete with shift paddles, the SP25's automatic transmission option adds $2180 to the purchase price.

Mazda has brought the price of the flagship MPS below $40,000 ($39,490) and estimates that for the price drop of $2425, the MPS now offers $2175 of extra value.

The only new variant in the range, the SP20 starts at $27,990, with a luxury pack available for a n all-up cost of $30,990. For the extra outlay, the luxury pack model features bi-xenon headlights, a sliding centre armrest, leather upholstery and a 10-speaker BOSE audio system with subwoofer.

Salão de Frankfurt 2011: o novo SUV da Mazda

A Mazda está mostrando no Salão de Frankfurt seu novo SUV/Crossover, o CX-5.

Como o próprio nome já diz, o CX-5 ficará abaixo de CX-7 e CX-9. Seu motor é um 2.2 turbo de 173 cv de potência. O carro tem câmbio manual de seis marchas e emissão de CO² de 120 g/km. Em breve, uma versão 2.0 à gasolina estará disponível.

O design do CX-5 é inspirado no dos conceitos Minagi (porte) e Shinari (design). A Mazda chama isso de "Kodo". O carro adota também a tecnologia SkyActiv.

O CX-5 começará a ser vendido na Inglaterra no começo de 2012.

RX-8 e Ram Dakota saem de linha

Dois carros saem de linha essa semana nos EUA: o Mazda RX-8 e a Dodge Ram Dakota. Primeiro, vamos falar da saída de linha do RX-8:

O Mazda RX-8 está saindo de linha nos EUA, como dito antes. O carro foi lançado em 2003, com um motor Wankel 1.3 de 232 cv. Com os anos se passando, suas vendas foram caindo. Em 2004, o carro vendeu 24.692 unidades no mundo inteiro, enquanto em 2010, foram apenas 1.134 unidades emplacadas.
A saída de linha também foi causada pelo motor Wankel rotativo não atendia as normas de emissão poluentes da Europa. Descanse em paz meu amigo. Vamos esperar por um RX-9, que tal?

A Ram Dakota deixa de ser produzida na terça-feira nos EUA. A Dakota atualmente está em sua 4ª geração, que foi lançada em 2008.
A picape que rivalizava com a GM Colorado, Nissan Titan e Toyota Tacoma, vendia quase a metade da picape da GM. Em 2000, a Dakota emplacou 177 mil unidades, enquanto ano passado, foram 13 mil unidades emplacadas.

Mazda 2 sedan

                      Mazda 2 sedan

                            Mazda 2 sedan  

Mazda Motor Corporation revealed the all-new Mazda 2 (Demio known as Mazda in Japan) sedan at Guangzhou Motor Show 2007.

This version of Mazda's latest model has a dynamic and elegant, designed to attract new customers in the rapidly growing China B-car segment. The new Mazda 2 sedan is produced by Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Co., Ltd. at its Nanjing plant, and will go on sale in the first half of 2008 the company network Changan Mazda Motor Sales.

                            Mazda 2 sedan 

Noriaki Yamada, President and Chief Operating Officer of Mazda Motor (China) Co., Ltd. said: "With the introduction of a four-door sedan and five-door hatchback and the B-car segment in China, we have completed Our product launches, B, C and CD segments, which represent the three main categories of Chinese vehicles. New models will greatly strengthen Mazda's product assembly in China. "

                            Mazda 2 sedan  

Mazda Senior Executive Managing, Kiyoshi Ozaki, spoke about Mazda's global growth and China business at the press conference. "In fiscal 2007 we expect to achieve our seventh consecutive year of profit growth and fourth consecutive year of record profits. Henceforth, we will strive to maintain our current growth by increasing the value of our brand and improve our business efficiency under our new mid-term plan to promote Mazda and our long-term vision for technology development, Sustainable Zoom-Zoom. Achieve our medium-term target for China of '300, 000 units of production and sales in 2010 "will be a decisive factor in our plans," he said.

                             Mazda 2 sedan  

This year, Mazda completed the consolidation of its production, sales and product foundations, which it has been building in order to achieve its mid-term objectives.

President and CEO of Mazda Motor (China) Co., Ltd., Satoshi Tachikake: "We have set up a production structure that comprises three facilities: the Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Nanjing plant, which was completed in September and features Mazda's latest production and machining technologies, the Changan Ford Mazda Automobile plant in Chongqing, and FAW Car Company in Changchun."

                            Mazda 2 sedan 

Mazda is also updating its sales network in order to achieve its mid-term target. In addition to the existing FAW Mazda Motor Sales Co., Ltd. (FMSC), Changan Mazda Motor Sales Co., Ltd. (CMSC) has been newly established, and sales will commence through the two channels from January 2008.

                                         Mazda 2 sedan

Noriaki Yamada, who is in charge of China sales, added, "The newly established Mazda Motor (China) Beijing Office will function as the representative of Mazda Motor Corporation. It will establish a reliable sales network by developing a unified brand strategy for the two sales channels and policies that will always benefit the customer. Mazda's core products will be progressively introduced through the two sales channels to strengthen our product lineup. We intend to continue expanding our sales network, from the current 104 dealerships to a total of 160 for both channels by January 2008, and establish over 300 dealers by 2010."

                      Mazda 2 sedan

2011 Mazda rx 8

                   2011 Mazda rx 8

                2011 Mazda rx 8

The RX-8 is a compact RWD sports car powered by a 1.3 liter rotary engine that can spin to 9,000 RPM. The RX-8 also has a second set of reverse-opening rear doors, which like the rotary engine is a feature no other sports car has.

                                        2011 Mazda rx 8 

The RX-8′s rotary powerplant is unlike any other. No pistons – and a super tiny 1.3 liters. A pair of rotors spin on a common crankshaft, and this reduction in rotating mass allows for a motorcycle-like operating range from 0-9,000 RPM. Peak power for manual-equipped versions is 232 hp; models equipped with the optional six-speed automatic are detuned a little to 212 hp, with redline cut back to 7,500 RPM.Because of its unique design and operating characteristics, there’s no way to compare the Mazda’s rotary engine with conventional piston engines.

                                         2011 Mazda rx 8 

However, it’s not all bad. The RX-8’s rotary engine weighs a lot less than conventional internal combustion engine designs and this translates into nimble handling out on the road. The suspension can be a bit firm for some tastes, especially when road surfaces aren’t the best, but this pays off in the directness of the steering and the easiness in which you can throw the car around a corner.

                                       2011 Mazda rx 8 

There’s no mistaking the RX-8 for anything but a pure Japanese sports car. With its pumped guards, large wheel arches and fighter jet cockpit style windows, the RX-8 has a distinctive look that you’ll either love or hate.

                                         2011 Mazda rx 8 

Performance buffs will want to go for the R3 edition, which comes with a stiffer suspension setup featuring Bilstein shocks, as well as 19-inch forged alloy wheels. Other goodies include a Bose premium audio system and Bluetooth connectivity.

                                        2011 Mazda rx 8 

The interior is hard not to love, with its flowing, low-slung design emphasizing the car’s sportiness. Despite the car being described as having 2+2 seating, space in the rear is very limited and is suitable for carrying small children only. At least getting in and out of the back is quite easy thanks to the suicide rear doors whose design mean they can only be opened once the corresponding front door is opened.

                                         2011 Mazda rx 8

                                           2011 Mazda rx 8

Mazda 3 Sedan

                                   Mazda 3 Sedan

                             Mazda 3 Sedan

The new Mazda 3 Sedan is completely positioned for the swiftly changing automotive market. It offers a mix of quality, styling, power, dynamics and fit and finish that meets the demands of today's customers. In typical Mazda fashion, this new Mazda 3 Sedan will present standard and optional equipment not found on other cars in its class - exactly what buyers want when seeking compact cars providing outstanding value.

                                        Mazda 3 Sedan

This model arrives with an impressive pedigree, for the first-generation Mazda 3 earned 90 major awards from expert critics and achieved 1.8 million sales around the world during the last five years. The Mazda 3 accounts for one third of Mazda's sales and even at the end of its build life, the first-generation version continued to earn accolades - a leading consumer magazine recently naming it as one of the most reliable compact sedans available.

                                    Mazda 3 Sedan

Mazda 3 Programme Manager Yoshiyuki Maeda established striving goals for the latest embodiment of the company's most admired car line, "We were determined to advance the Zoom-Zoom driving experience to fresh heights because that unique feeling lies at the very heart of Mazda. On the heels of the original Mazda 3's success, we aimed to again exceed the expectations of customers all over the world by a wide margin. This meant providing drivers with a sense of exhilaration - whether they were in motion, seated in the Mazda 3, or enjoying its appearance from outside."

                                    Mazda 3 Sedan

                                        Mazda 3 Sedan

                                Mazda 3 Sedan

                                    Mazda 3 Sedan

                                 Mazda 3 Sedan