#Mazda AZ-1

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Mazda AZ-1, 1994. For sale in the UK, an Autozam AZ-1 M2-1015 spec kei car which has travelled 77,000 miles and has a full service history. It is offered for £29,999

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Little heroes.

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Autozam AZ-1 @ Okutama-ko

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1993 Mazda AZ-1

My tumblr-blogs:

www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935

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Autozam AZ-1

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Autozam AZ-1 (PG6SA) at WCEC's Season Opener (2024) in West Bend, WI.

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First version of the GReddyVI-AZ-1. This is the red version. This was later rebuilt as the white version. Pics from my book by Amemiya san. Translated text below by google with some corrections by myself.

Dream Mine Another dream machine! The compact monster is also my starting point!

GReddyVI-AZ-1 1996 Tokyo Auto Salon Domestic Complete Car Category Excellence Award

The GReddy series so far has been based on FC and FD but the body size is wider

It has turned into a monster.

However, this year, as I entered my last year in my 40s, I looked back on my tuning life up to that point, returned to my roots, and wanted to take on a new challenge. .

My starting point is a machine with tremendous power hidden in a compact body, and I wish I could tear apart a Porsche or Ferrari class hyper sports car from the outside! I wanted to revive the pleasure I experienced with Chante and Cervo.

The original gullwing used in the GReddy7-IIi, IV, and V is of course satisfactory in terms of construction and design, but it is still

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A body that has originality in each part and incorporates every possible idea that is unique to the street and not found in racing cars.

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The quality of the gullwings made by Kerr is high in terms of their high degree of perfection and durability. As expected, I have no choice but to say. Therefore, as I am particular about gullwings, I chose the AZ-1 as the base car, which I had been eyeing since it was first released. Sera's Gullwing was also a candidate, but I chose the AZ-1 because the shape of the windshield matched the image.

Although it is based on the AZ-1, only the door structure, roof, windshield, and some interior parts remain. Of course, the engine was replaced with a rotary one, and production began by making everything completely complete, from the body to the frame and suspension structure!

Since it's a K-sized car, I wanted to keep it as compact as possible by keeping it within the same size as the 80 Supra, with 20cms wider on each side, making the body as compact as possible but to allow Air to the 3 rotors loaded in the mid position.

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It is also my passion to not attach wings and to make it an integral part of the body. The rear of the bumper has a mesh pattern to vent air.

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When it came to the body design, things like introduction, securing downforce, etc., ideas kept coming to me, and it was difficult but fun to turn them into reality.

The chassis and suspension took a lot of time and the know-how gained from participating in races. It is also meant to strengthen the body in order to obtain official approval, and it is stretched to the point where it can be called a pipe frame specification. The suspension has also been set up with an emphasis on handling so that it can ride smoothly around the bay. The locking arm type double wishbone has a stroke of 50mm compared to the standard 140mm. Well, as for ``how about actually driving it?'', it's a pity that I haven't been able to test it out since it hasn't been officially approved yet.

The important engine is a 3-rotor side port specification that uses the eccentric shaft and rotor housing for 20B, and connects three rotors for 13B.

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The mid-mounted engine is a 3-rotor using a 13B rotor. We also considered the weight balance and carefully determined the positioning.

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The turbine is T78-33D, and it squeezes out about 500ps with a boost of 1.1k. However, this is also not set to the highest speed, but rather to focus on acceleration up to 300km/h by improving mid- to low-speed response. At first, I thought about having an NA like the GT, but since it's a mid-engine car, the sound would get really noisy, so after thinking about it a lot, I decided on a turbo version.

Actually, this car. I won the Excellence Award, but I missed out on the Grand Prix. Why? I heard from Dai-chan and other judges that it was because we were late for the delivery time! If the item is not delivered within the specified time, it will not be subject to inspection. However, I'm grateful that they decided to at least give me the Excellence Award because it's so amazing. I didn't create it just to win an award, but when I think about how it could have won the Grand Prix, I was a little disappointed. I was just so disgusted.

SPECIFICATION

Base vehicle: AZ-1/13B modified 20B

Engine & Turbine system: T78-33 D/Trust wastegate type R/Trust 3-layer inner fin type intercooler for GT-R + 90 piping/one-off radiator

other

Exhaust system Original stainless steel/other Suspension & drive system Bilstein Porsche racing suspension/Porsche C car hub/Porsche 962C transmission/Brembo 355 monoblock brake caliper (front)/Brembo F40 brake (rear) other

Tires & wheels: Yokohama A-008 P front 255/35-18/rear 295/ 35-18 / AW-7

Others: Carrozzeria, car navigation system, etc.

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The shift lever is set to the right of the driver's seat, and the racing car-inspired meters are made by Stack.

I won the Excellence Award, but I missed out on the Grand Prix!

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Mazda Autozam AZ-1

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na, mostmár írok egy autós posztot,

mert eladó a Zumi. 2007-es Mazda 2, diesel, és MENTAZÖLD. nagyon szép, nézzétek!

2021-ben vettem, addig Ausztriában futott, annak idején le is tudtam kérni az adatait a Mazda honlapjáról, 122ezer kilométerrel vettem meg. és azóta jó sok dolog történt, mert 180ezer kilométerig utaztunk együtt. vele:

Jópárszor átutaztuk az országot, de voltunk Prágában, Erdélyben, Szlovéniában és Olaszországban is vele. Rendkívül keveset kért enni, szerintem soha életében nem fogyazstott 6.8 felett.

Rendesen volt szervízelve, tavasszal kapott új porlasztócsúcsot, elektromos vezetékeket és egy gázpedál-jeladót is. Ja meg még légtömegmérőt is.

Sajnos a budapesti élete alatt volt, aki túl szépnek találta és kicsit megkarcolgatta, a szerelő diagn��zisa szerint ezek a sérülések lepolírozhatóak, de inkább elköltöztünk Budapestről.

Olyan sosem volt, hogy ne fértek volna el benne a cuccaink, pedig mentünk vele egy hetes nyaralásra kutyával, és költözős autó is volt. Amikor megveszed, majdnem teljesen üres lesz, csak a felnire szerelt téligumikat találod majd a csomagtartóban, amiket asszem másfél éve vettem.

Az ára 1 millió alatt van, a többit elmesélem üzenetben.

Rengeteg történetem van még róla, de természetesen a lényeges infókat firtató kérdésekre is szívesen válaszolok. Ha érdekel, jelentkezz!

Ha nem érdekel, akkor egy megosztással tudsz tenni érte, hogy új gazdára találjon, köszi szépen!

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Autozam AZ-1 "F40," 2024, by Liberty Walk. For this year's Tokyo Auto Salon the Japanese Tuner have revealed a bodykit for the Mazda/Autozam AZ-1 that takes inspiration from the Ferrari F40. The kit costs $22,660, and the wheels are an additional $14,300 and of course you need an AZ-1 donor car.

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M2 1015 @ Sodegaura Forest Raceway

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might be a bit of a boring question but how do you feel about the Mazda b series? and if you have nothing to say about that one then I'd love to hear your thoughts on the tacoma

So thoughtful of you to give me a backup question, but worry not! If I've got nothing to say about a car, I will find it, goddamnit, if it'll take me two months! Which it very nearly did. Sorry. Anyhow! In reverse order of generations:

1. 5th

it would take state-backed effort to get me to care for -hell, care about- this last one, which did not excel in looks nor performance nor, from what I can tell, reliability nor comfort. It feels like it would be a very complex thought experiment to come up with the buyer this would be the best choice for, even in its time. (However, while the enthusiasts' metric of evaluation is competition, the owners' metric is their own expectations, so it is certain and valid and good that millions of owners were chuffed about their purchase and I love that for them and do not whatsoever seek to rain on their parade.)

2. 4th

Neat! Even beyond the spectacular decals, I just love Japanese pickups of this era (the ones yankees call "small pickups" and we call "pickups" because we don't have those useless fuck-off-gargantuan shit yankees love to pretend has any use). So much so that I want two of them. Neither are this (they're the Toyota Hilux and the Nissan D21), but objectively they're all about the same and my preferences are purely based on aesthetic minutiae.

3. 3rd

First I see of it! The front is kind of unfortunate, but it reminds me of the Yugo so it's on my good side. The rear taillights also have a kind of Soviet quality to them, I'm sure there's some -az car with rear lights just like those.

4. 2nd

HELL FUCKING YEAH *checks pronouns* SISTER! I love this thing. Especially the REPU, where PU stands for Pick Up and RE stands for...

Yep :D, this was the time when Mazda was shoving rotaries left and right into applications they were comically unsuited for absolutely no discernible reason, and we're all glad that they did, because Lord knows no one else had the lack of sense to do it.

Yes the ROTARY POWER* on the back of it is factory! *BITCHES

5. 1st

Yeah, this is at the edge of car period that excites me. Not that I think it looks bad or is bad or anything, it just starts to feel too... historic for me to connect to? I guess a Mazda pickup from the early '60s is just not for me.

It seems I guessed wrong.

This Ghibli-esque little thing is the 1959 Mazda K360, being a kei truck with the then maximum of 360cc of engine. It was a popular taxi (taxi!) in Myanmar...

...where it kept being produced until the early '70s, when it got replaced by the other other truck Mazda was making by the early '60s, the B360.

Wow I really was wrong there huh.

These were probably a sort of "Eastern Europe getting Fiat's scraps" kind of deal, since while these were manufactured in Myanmar from '72 to the mid-90s (mid-90s!), by 1972 Japan had already long been getting the B360's replacement i.e. the Mazda Porter, which OOOO0000°°°°°ººººº⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰ my GOOOOOODDDD

OMGOMGOMG THIS IS THE CUTEST THING IN THE WORLD

I don't even want to own one of these, I want to cuddle it. I want to protect it.

OMG THIS ONE HAS TINY LITTLE HAYASHIS WITH TINY LITTLE LETTERING ON ITS TINY LITTLE TIRES

*faints* *a feeble, wiggly speech bubble appears from below the table* Tacoma's good btw. Best of segment by miles.

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The Unicorn Triple Rotor AZ-1 by RE Amemiya and GReddy.

Unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Salon in 1996, RE Amemiya showed this one of a kind, heavily modified kei car. Most people know RE Amemiya from their work with Mazdas and rotary engines but Autozam technically was a Mazda. During their economic boom in the 90’s Mazda developed a handful of brands that served different purposes and Autozam was their kei car line.

This little compact kei was not to be messed with though, weighing just under 2,500 lbs, the car was powered by a 20b triple rotor engine pushing 400 hp. The car utilized brakes from a Ferrari F40, transmission from a Porsche 962C, and Bilstein parts throughout. The only original parts from the AZ-1 were the iconic gullwing doors. Only one of these cars was ever made, originally painted red before it was sold and repainted white by the new owner.

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Autozam AZ-1

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Autozam AZ-1 (PG6SA) at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2023) - Meet 3 in Waukesha, WI.