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Article: Fun in the sun in a Mazda Miata 2 seats, tiny trunk -- but it's large on enjoyment and easy on gas
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 30, 1995
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CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Mazda is a peculiar company; it is the niche-filler to the
motoring world. If Chrysler were a Japanese company, it would be
Mazda. They share the same kind of death-defying history -- from the
brink of disaster to prosperity and back to the brink and . . ..
Some of Mazda's best cars sprang from failures -- the RX-7, for
example, is a unique sports coupe, one of the finest sports cars to
be found anywhere, the living rebuke of technological failure that
almost destroyed the company. The RX-7 is powered by a rotary
engine; once all Mazdas were so powered but the rotary was far short
of perfection when Mazda started mass-producing it and its many