Mazda is an automobile name that originated from Jujiro Matsudas company that was founded in 1920 in the historic City of Hiroshima in Japan. Although many believed that Mazda is basically an Anglicized pronunciation of the founders name Matsuda, the name is officially associated with Ahura Mazda, a god worshipped by early civilizations in West Asia.
In Mazdas company website, Ahura Mazda is interpreted to be the god of wisdom, intelligence and harmony and a symbol of automobile culture. The desire for World Peace and the development of the automobile manufacturing industry is upheld to be the companys vision.
Mazda descended from the original company Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd. that was renamed Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd. in 1927. This company originally manufactured machine tools and gradually moved to automobiles by the introduction of Mazda Go in 1931.
During the Second World War, Toyo Kogyo produced Type 99 rifles, particularly the series starting from 30 to 35 which was heavily used by the Japanese Imperial Army. But the defeat of the Japanese in the Second World War failed to bring down the company, and instead, it was soaring high a decade later. Mazda R360...