Mazda Nagare

The new surface language called Nagare (pronounced “na-ga-reh”) was the first of a series of design concepts that Mazda will showcase. Nagare, which means flow in Japanese, achieves that goal while also signaling a fresh design direction for future Mazda vehicles.

Mazda Ryuga

Evolving further, Laurens van den Acker, Design Division General Manager for Hiroshima, Japan’s Mazda Motor Corporation, revealeds the Ryuga (pronounced “ree-yoo-ga”) - Japanese for “gracious flow” - concept, as the second series of Mazda’s concept cars. Nagare is a dream or an emotion that’s just beginning to take shape while Ryuga extends that idea by adding the definition.

Mazda Hakaze

The third design concept of the series created around the ‘Nagare’ design language, joining the Mazda Nagare and Mazda Ryuga which were revealed earlier. A four-seat coupe-style compact crossover SUV designed at Mazda’s European Design Centre seems to be effortlessly cutting through the air, even when standing still.

Mazda Taiki

Revealed at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show in October 2007. As the fourth design in the series, Taiki sets a new ideal for the front-engine rear-drive sports car of the future. A design that visually expresses the flow of air was inspired by the image of a pair of Hagoromo—the flowing robes that enable a celestial maiden to fly in Japanese legend—floating down from the sky.

Mazda Furai

The most sophisticated design of all Mazda’s concept car series in my opinion, Furai takes Mazda’s unique Nagare design language a step further. Furai concept car based on an American Le Mans Series (ALMS) racing car, utilizes the Courage C65 chassis the company campaigned in the ALMS series only two seasons ago.

With its 450-hp 3-rotor rotary engine, make it distinguished from any other racing cars. Mazda claimed Furai to be the “Soul of a Sports Car” with an eye toward the future and the environment through the use of ethanol (E100) produced by British Petroleum (BP).

Via: Mazda USA

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting, hope to see you back again soon!

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm and is filed under Cars, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.