THE ULTIMATE CAR GUIDE: Car Features - Same Car, Different Names: Mazda

Monday, February 12, 2018

Car Features - Same Car, Different Names: Mazda

After a month, our feature is back and we haven't stopped featuring Japanese brands and this week, the brand has its fair share to a point it didn't made sense to the manufacturer but that was almost 25 to 30 years ago. Mazda did this by having three dealership networks which they followed the strategy of Toyota, Honda, and Nissan. No thanks to making numerous vehicles that had consumers confused and a poor economy, this experiment was killed in the mid-90s.

As with Japanese brands, this list would be separated in two categories: the first one is the same car but different brand and the second is the same car of the same brand but wearing a different name. For the latter category, they must be sold in a different dealer network (Mazda's dealer network included Autozam, Efini, Eunos, M2, Xedos). Cars launched from 1990 and above would be included on the list to avoid a long list. Do take note the year range represents the entire vehicle line (including those of its twins) even if the original model was killed. It will include vehicles born under joint ventures as a base car and vehicles made during Ford's ownership are listed under the Blue Oval brand.

What Mazda models had a different name for other brands?

PS: Mazda's dealer network demands a separate article, wait for it soon.

Same car-different brand

Autozam AZ-1-Suzuki Cara