Are you a fan of the accepted Mazda look, with its ample shapes, animated aperture and clear jewelry? It all started with the Nagare abstraction apparent at the 2007 LA Motor Show, area the carmaker showed off a car that “flowed”. A brace of concepts after – Ryuga, Hakaze, Taiki and Furai – the Nagare architecture accent was in abounding breeze (pardon the pun), as Mazda approved to apparatus it assimilate its alley car range.
They’ve assuredly managed to administer the Nagare architecture in abounding with the new Mazda5 (as apparent in Geneva), afore killing it. Yes, the Nagare architecture accent is dead.
Creator of Nagare, Laurens van den Acker, larboard the aggregation for Renault aftermost year, and the brand’s European architecture bang-up Peter Birtwhistle was afresh quoted as saying: “Nagare is done. After the 5, it’s awful absurd that there will be addition Nagare car. Mazda has confused on.” He adds that Mazda top accoutrements in Japan aren’t absolutely assertive with the Nagare look, which the Brit describes as “particularly difficult to administer to a boxlike bodies carrier shape.”
So what can we apprehend from them next? Birtwhistle told Auto Express that Mazda is aiming to become “more like a Japanese Alfa Romeo, bearing cars which are abundant to drive, but crucially that additionally accept the appropriate exceptional feel, decidedly inside.” Mazda’s all-around architecture arch Ikuo Maeda, who led the RX-8 and Mazda2 architecture teams, is the man in charge.
A cardinal of concepts are actuality advised beneath the “thrusting motion” affair and Maeda will baddest a champ in September. The called architecture will admission at the Paris Motor Appearance forth with the name of Mazda’s new architecture philosophy. Interestingly, Nagare architect van den Acker is set to appearance off his best for Renault in Paris.
