The Global 2000 ranks the largest companies in the world using four metrics: sales, profits, asset and market value. As a group, the 180 companies from Japan account for $4.2 trillion in sales, $297 ...

There’s plenty of quirkiness to be found in Japan: toilet seats that sing to you, sushi delivered on a model train – and the Mazda 3 Hatchback. You see, the Mazda 3 does things a bit ...

Japan knows a thing or two about hot hatches ... and only a tenth shy of the 300hp Mk2 Focus RS. In fact, the Mazda 3 shares its underpinnings with Ford’s family hatch, so you’d expect ...

The MazdaSpeed 3 (known as the Mazda 3 MPS in Europe and other markets where ... the larger MazdaSpeed 6 sedan (known as the Atenza in Japan). This application powered a one-size-class-up sedan ...

Called Mazdaspeed Axela in Japan, Mazdaspeed3 in North America ... This is Mazda's own 2.0 diesel, not the 2.0 litre PSA/Ford diesel engine. Mazda 3 MPS Sport Aero with dropped suspension, big rear ...

Called Mazda Axela in Japan. Also showcased at the Bologna Motor Show on December ... TS2 Nav auto 5-dr 150PS £18,155 175g/km 2.0 Sport 5-dr 151PS £18,025 159g/km 2.3 MPS 5-dr 260PS £21,500 224g/km ...

The original Mazda 3 MPS managed the intriguing feat of being very interesting on paper – a 256bhp hot hatch, the most powerful production front-drive car in the world – yet dull both to ...

The first Mazda MPS model – branded ‘Mazdaspeed’ in other markets – was the 2006 MPS 3, which was powered by a turbocharged ... It even spawned an RX-7 Bathurst R edition sold in Japan. Where is that ...

Aspiration toward a higher plane of luxury and refinement is a near-universal notion. Plenty of us Yanks would call it the American dream, but the idea is far from exclusive to those living in the ...