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Assembly started in 1967 at Steel's Motor Assemblies, which also built the Toyota Corona and later became Toyota New Zealand's Christchurch plant after a government order for 672 units. The model remained in local assembly at various plants for several generations. [citation needed] The B series was introduced to the United States with the 1972 ...
The Mazda B-series is a small-sized, iron-block, inline four-cylinder engine with belt-driven SOHC and DOHC valvetrain ranging in displacement from 1.1 to 1.8 litres. It was used in a wide variety of applications, from front-wheel drive economy vehicles to the turbocharged full-time 4WD 323 GTX and rear-wheel drive Miata.
The RX-7 and 626 buoyed Mazda's American fortunes enough for it to expand. Mazda built an American plant (now Flat Rock Assembly Plant) to build the 626, bringing the company to Ford's attention. The two joined on the 626's 2-door offshoots, the MX-6 and Ford Probe. Mazda finished the 1980s the same way as the 1970s, with an image-building ...
Behr Dayton Thermal Products LLC is a 570,000-square-foot (53,000 m 2) auto parts facility located in Dayton, Ohio. The Dayton plant is a major U.S. operation of the German company Behr GmbH & Co. KG. [1] This facility manufactures vehicle air conditioning and engine cooling systems.
In the 1980s, many U.S. production engine remanufacturers began reaming valve guides, rather than replacing them, as part of their remanufacturing process. They found that by reaming all the valve guides in a head to one standard size (typically 0.008 in. diametrically oversized), and installing remanufactured engine valves having stems that are also oversized, a typical engine head can be ...
The F engine family from Mazda is a mid-sized inline-four piston engine with iron block, alloy head and belt-driven SOHC and DOHC configurations. Introduced in 1983 as the 1.6-litre F6, this engine was found in the Mazda B-Series truck and Mazda G platform models such as Mazda 626/Capella as well as many other models internationally including Mazda Bongo and Ford Freda clone, Mazda B-series ...
These 1.4 L (1,399 cc) SOHC 8-valve turbo diesel engines with bore and stroke of 73.7 mm × 82 mm (2.90 in × 3.23 in), and compression ratio 18.0:1 were shipped to Valencia (now in the Mazda 2 DE to Hiroshima or Hofu plants) and mounted into Mazda 2 DY and Mazda 2 DE together with a 5-speed manual transmission. The engine's maximum power is 50 ...
The following table summarises a list of Mazda production plants. The list includes manufacturing and assembly plants wholly owned or wholly operated by Mazda, in addition to joint-venture plants in which Mazda held equity stakes. The list excludes multi-manufacturer contract assembly plants in which Mazda held no equity stake.