Yo, it's the last day of May Day!
I don't know how your holiday is arranged, But Brother K took advantage of the holiday to visit the Mazda Museum, which has just been renovated and opened to the public again to see what has changed.
First of all, this museum is located in the Mazda Honsha factory area in Hiroshima, Japan, and the new museum is divided into 1-10 parts, of which the 9th part is: Your car, this is how it was born. Here the audience can see the assembly line of the factory area.
So when you see the Mazda Museum, it's like visiting the factory!
The earlier museum furnishings were quite conventional, that is, an ordinary automobile exhibition hall, which may not even be compared with the domestic county-level history museum.
If Brother K doesn't tell you that this is the Mazda Museum, you may think it's a used car camp in China.
Also wonder how to collect Mazda, the boss is not iron powder or sick!
After the full renovation, it is much more advanced, the designer attaches great importance to the shaping of light and shadow, and the light layer façade has the taste of "luxury brand"!
Inside the museum, the first floor displays Mazda's existing models as before. Near should all recognize, the white SUV in the distance is the Mazda MX-30, a pure electric small SUV, using the RX-8 with the same door opening design.
Ps. It is said that Mazda will also launch an extended range version of the MX-30, using a rotor engine as a range extender.
After visiting the first floor, Brother K climbed up to the second floor with the guidance, and here you enter the Mazda Centennial History Corridor, and the first district 1 is the starting point of the Mazda manufacturing spirit. （1920-1959）
Well, that's right, it's this three-bungee. But it is known as the Mazda model that best represents the spirit of the Hiroshima Challenger. Mazda and Honda are both built motorcycles, the difference is that Honda is two-wheeled, Mazda added a bucket on the basis of the second wheel, after all, to rebuild well, or add a bucket more Hiroshima spirit.
It was at this time that Mazda entered the passenger car manufacturing sector and became an international company as a comprehensive automobile manufacturer (1960-1969) as it became an integrated automobile manufacturer. （1970-1985）
In the lower right corner is Mazda's first passenger car, the R360 Coupe, which Mazda has called a landmark first. Buying a private car in Japan was considered a distant thing at the time, and the 300,000-yen R360 Coupe went crazy.
The C position gave Mazda the proudest first rotor engine sports car, the Cosmo Sport, and mass production of the rotor engine was Mazda's never-give-up obsession, which Mazda did in 1967.
Zone 4 is Mazda's motorsports, with a reputation of company and technology challenged worldwide.
"1st", the champion, refers to Mazda's first team championship at the 59th French Le Mans 24 Hours in 1991, and the first championship of Japanese automakers.
This orange and green racing car is all too familiar, the Mazda 787B! Twenty years of setbacks in exchange for the glory of the broken ship, the four-rotor engine reached the peak of the time, it is really hard to imagine that I met the Buddha-figure!
Districts 5-6 mean "enterprising", spanning the era (1986-1995) with an expansion strategy, and focusing on the brand strategy to move towards a new growth path. （1996-2009）
This is home to the various Mazda star models from the 90s to the early 20th century, such as the MX-5 Miata, RX-7, Eunos Cosmo, and so on. The latter is the only three-rotor engine sports car in the world.
Zone 7 is to manufacture world-class cars, technology and design (2010 ~ so far), Zone 8 is people-oriented, Mazda product manufacturing, here is a variety of Mazda models using soul design and SKYACTIV Chuangchi Blue Sky technology, including engines, chassis, sludge models, crash test vehicles, etc.
Pass through District 8 and you'll enter an empty bridge, which is District 9: Your car, that's how it was born. Here is just across part of the production line, K brother looked at it quite carefully. All aspects of the production line are orderly, workers and robots run synchronously, and various components are installed in an orderly manner according to the process.
Ps. Mazda's real production line is not allowed to visit, and it is also a wish to visit the factory to see the assembly workshop.
Interestingly, Mazda's production line is a "multi-product mixed production", the front workers are assembling the MX-5, and the workers in the back are installing the interior of the CX-30, which looks a bit time-space chaotic, but in fact, it is orderly.
District 10 is creating with people and moving towards the next 100 years. Cough, that's a bit Versailles.
The most obvious light in the middle is the RX-Vision, which you now consider a pity that this car has, such as the front-mounted rear drive and the rotor engine SKYACTIV-R. But u1s1, even if this car is really built, it must be replaced by pure electric drive to keep up with current events, right?
The silver one in the back is the Vision Coupe, which represents Mazda's new generation of design. This design language has been applied to existing Mazda models, such as the Mazda 3 and Artez.
The souvenir shop, which was originally only a small area, has also expanded, although it is still a few old, it looks a lot taller. If you change a Bentley label to not violate it at all, this is a "luxury brand"!
OK, Mazda Museum, even if you're done, and the Mazda Factory!
In fact, there are many similar brand museums in Japan, and Toyota has several in various parts of Japan, which quietly narrate the history of the century-old brand like a resume. Many of the cars in it are the "preservation car style" of the museum collection, recording the appearance of the most original factory at that time, and many model manufacturers will specially model and produce the same car model.
Some car friends may ask why domestic manufacturers rarely have such museums? Maybe the reason is that people are still busy with production and construction, and they can't open their hands to run museums. Quietly Mimi asked again, the beauty leopard car put into the museum should be considered "black history", right?
(https://www2.mazda.com/ja/onlinemazdamuseum/) Copy opens in parentheses
Here's the car that Brother K has picked up
Whether it's spit or recommendation
We all gave our thoughts frankly
New attention to the car friends can look at it again!