Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

The entire decade of the 1990s is now at least 25 years in the past, giving U.S. enthusiasts unprecedented access to JDM machinery from performance cars to quintessentially Japanese kei cars. This ...

The Mazdaspeed story traces its origin back to the late 1960s, when a racing team run by the Mazda Auto Tokyo dealership caught the attention of Mazda corporate. The team's growing reputation on the ...

From the November 2006 issue of Car and Driver. It's been a contender for our cover ever since we spotted a prototype circling the Nürburgring in August 2005. It was all black, sucking air into a huge ...

The story behind the scarce Mazdaspeed Miata, a performance model cut short by a tragic factory fire in 2004. Not every scarce vehicle was intended to be all that scarce. The Mazdaspeed Miata, for ...

The smallest car that Mazda sells in the U.S. is the front-wheel-drive 3. Launched in 2004 and available as a sedan or a five-door hatchback, the Mazda 3 is built on the second-generation European ...

Ask anyone to name one of Mazda's performance cars, past or present, and the RX-7 is probably the answer most would offer, followed shortly by the MX-5 Miata. However, beyond the rotary-powered sports ...

Mazda has always been an enthusiast-oriented automaker. But for a handful of years, there was a nameplate that denoted a more hardcore offering: Mazdaspeed. The in-house racing and tuning team turned ...

The big story here isn’t just about this car. It could be, since the new MazdaSpeed Protegé is loads of fun, with all the performance enhancements found on the Mazda MP3 plus a good dose more ...

If you're thinking of shopping around for a Japanese sports sedan from the early 2000s (maybe your favorite two-door car from the era is too expensive), there are a few obvious choices that are ...

Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...