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Mazda wants to have the greenest engine on the market by 2013 - and if everything goes according to plans, they will. Mazda's plan is to install a 70 miles per gallon drivetrain into their upcoming MAZDA2. A Mazda spokesman clarified the 70 MPG result was from a Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States, but still well above the competition's.

Mazda officially announced a "15 percent better gas mileage than the existing model."

The MAZDA2, or "Demio" in Japan, goes on sale in Japan in the first half of 2011, though the…

Over in Mazda's homeland of Japan the auto maker is displaying their vehicles produced to help those with special needs. Mazda Motor Corporation brought these vehicles to the 37th International Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition 2010 in Tokyo.

The exhibition, which is organized by Japan's Health and Welfare Information Association, will be held at Tokyo International Exhibition Center from September 29 through October 1, 2010.

Mazda will display three vehicles modified for use by wheelchair users: The AZ-Wagon-i, the Biante Second Row Lift-up Seat and Biante Front Row Lift-up Seat. These special needs versions are based on the Mazda…

The higher ups at the Japanese auto makers are zooming in a fun little race held to show off how fun a brand Mazda really is.

Who's who and what did they drive?

Weldon Munsey, director of dealer affairs, piloted a 1992 GTP rotary-engine powered GTP racer - the American equivalent of the class of race cars that run at LeMans. The car is powered by a 2.3-liter, four-rotor rotary engine generating 638 horsepower. Munsey took first place in his class of other GTP ars of the era with the fastest time.

Communications director Jeremy Barnes drove a 1962…