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The Mazda Familia (Japanese: マツダ ファミリア, Matsuda Famiria), also marketed prominently as the Mazda 323, Mazda Protegé and Mazda Allegro, is a small family car that was manufactured by Mazda between 1963 and 2003. The Familia line was replaced by the Mazda3/Axela for 2004.
The Mazda Familia Van (also known as the Mazda Familia Wagon) is a light commercial vehicle sold by Mazda. Despite sharing the same name as the Familia, it is not manufactured by Mazda; rather, it is a badge-engineered variant of an existing vehicle from another manufacturer. From 1994 to 2018, the Familia Wagon/Van was based on the Nissan AD ...
The Mazda Grand Familia (Japanese: マツダ・グランドファミリア, Matsuda Gurando Famiria) is an automobile which was produced by Mazda in Japan from 1971 to 1978. . It was sold as the Mazda 808 in some export markets including Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and as the Mazda 818 in many others - this was mostly due to Peugeot having trademarked three-digit numbers with a middle ...
Mazda had used a number of different marques in the Japan market, including Autozam, Eunos, and Efini, although they have been phased out. In the early 1990s Mazda almost created a luxury marque, Amati , to challenge Acura , Infiniti , and Lexus in North America, but this never happened, leaving the near-luxury Millenia to the Mazda brand.
Mazda began supplying manual transaxles to Ford in the spring of 1980. [26] Mazda's Familia platform was used for Ford models like the Laser and Escort beginning in 1980, while the Capella architecture found its way into Ford's Telstar sedan and Probe sports models.
The iron-block, alloy head E family was an evolution of Mazda's xC design. It was released in June 1980 with the introduction of the first front-wheel drive Mazda Familias and Ford Lasers. Some later variants of the E5-powered Mazda Familia and Ford Laser in Japan incorporated a full-time 4WD drivetrain.
The Mazda Étude is a three-door hatchback coupé version of the fifth-generation Familia that was only ever marketed by Mazda in Japan, from 1987 to 1989. The name was also later used in South Africa for the sixth generation Familia .
Mazda Familia / Mazda 323 (station wagon) [citation needed] 1981–1986: BV was an updated version of the preceding FA4 generation, sold alongside the newer BD sedan and coupé. BF Mazda Familia / Mazda 323 / Mazda Étude [1] / Ford Laser [1] (sedan, hatchback, cabriolet) 1985–2004: The self stabilizing suspension was updated.