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Mazda Nagare Concept Car for Los Angeles Motor Show

 


15th November, 2006

 

Mazda Nagare Concept Car

Mazda Motor Corporation today announced the global reveal of an all-new concept car, Nagare (pronounced na-gah-reh), at the Greater Los Angeles International Auto Show, during a press conference on Wednesday 29th November, 2006. Following on the heels of three very successful and exploratory Mazda design concepts – Kabura, Sassou and Senku – Nagare is the first indication of Mazda’s future design direction.

According to Mazda’s newly appointed global design director, Laurens van den Acker, Nagare sums up the future of Mazda design in one deceptively simple word - Flow. “Nagare is a celebration of proportions and surface language that will evolve into subsequent designs planned for presentation at future international auto shows. Nagare examines light and shadow and begins to reveal the global design cues for the next generation of Mazda vehicles.”

Franz Von Holzhausen, Director of Design for Mazda North American Operations, who headed the Nagare design team in Irvine, California, describes Nagare as an entirely new and unique expression of Zoom-Zoom: “Inspired by the movement of nature’s elements, our designers have captured motion, energy and lightness and translated it into a beautiful language of lines and forms that are powerful yet effortless, provocative yet strikingly seductive.”

And there’s much more to come, too, as Mazda continues to evolve flow through future models. For now, Mazda enthusiasts can experience Nagare as an indication of Mazda Design’s confident step in a new direction.

Other vehicles on display at the Los Angeles Motor Show include the recently launched Mazda CX-7 crossover SUV, the Mazda CX-9 three-row, seven-passenger SUV, which arrives in Mazda dealerships in USA in early 2007 (early 2008 in Australia), and the MX-5 (Miata) with power retractable hard top, along with the entire 2007 Mazda line-up.




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