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Past Gas

S1 Ep225: Mazda Pt II: The Re-Birth of the Rotary Engine

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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It’s October 1963, and the 10th Tokyo Motor Show is underway. Toyo Kogyo’s Mazda brand has had some success, but to prove its worth as an independent business to the government, Toyo Kogyo President Tsuneji Matsuda has hedged the company’s future on a new, pistonless engine technology that many considered to be a fantasy. But soon, that fantasy would become a reality. How did Tsuneji Matsuda take Mazda from a small truck manufacturer to a respected car-maker during one of the most competitive times in history? How did they take an engine technology no one believed in and use it to save the company? And how did Mazda create two brand-defining cars in barely more than a decade? We’ll find out today on Past Gas, in part two of our four-part series on Mazda.

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0:55.0

October, 1963, and the 10th Tokyo Motor Show is underway. Toyo Kojojo's Mazda brand has had some success in recent years,

0:59.0

falling the launch of their first car and a new line of pickups,

1:02.0

but the company is at risk of a forced merger with

1:04.7

the larger company by the Japanese government.

1:07.8

To prove its worth as an independent business, Toyokoio President Sunegi Matsuda has hedged the company's future on a new

1:14.3

pistonless engine technology that many considered to be a fantasy. Over the past few

1:21.0

years the company has spent enormous sums of money on a research project led by engineer Kenichi Yamamoto to work out the engine's flaws.

1:28.0

A crowd is gathered in the Mazda team's small exhibit of trucks and K-cars when to the surprise of both the crowd

1:35.0

and the Mazda team, a car is seen approaching with Sunegi behind the wheel.

1:40.2

It's soon revealed to be empowered by the so-called fantasy engine.

1:44.0

Critics are stunned, journalists are buzzing,

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