Tweedehands Mazda 3

Mazda began in Hiroshima in 1920 as a cork manufacturer, built its first three-wheeled truck in 1931 and survived the atomic bomb of 1945 with its factory intact, which it turned over to the city as a hospital and government office. The car business only began in earnest in 1960 with the R360 coupé.

Mazda has always been the company that took the road nobody else would. It made the Wankel rotary engine work, won Le Mans with one in 1991, and in 1989 revived the affordable roadster with the MX-5, which has since become the best-selling two-seater sports car in history.

Today the range runs from the Mazda2 and Mazda3 through the CX-30, CX-5, CX-60 and CX-80, with the MX-5 still at its heart and the MX-30 R-EV using a rotary as a range extender. Kodo design and Jinba Ittai, the sense of horse and rider as one, are the two ideas everything is built around.