Mazda Taiki unveiled

Posted: 10:55am, 25 October 2007

You’re not telling me that Mazda is about to launch a car with out-riggers and a freaky body, are you?Yes. And no. Mazda has played with its ‘nagare’ design concept over the course of 2007, with a steady stream of concept cars inspired by the natural rhythms of nature. Waves, winds, that sort of thing. And the latest, the gracefully swooping Taiki, is indeed named after a Japanese wind.

CAR Online has been assured that this is a very serious design direction. Senior designers have confirmed to us that a new, small production car will appear with this nagare-inspired look by 2009.

Will that be a new Mazda 3 small hatchback? Or a new, standalone coupe to take up where the MX-3 left off? We’re not sure yet, but the news heralds the most important change in Mazda’s styling since the arrival of the Mk1 MX-5.

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