Has it already been a full year since we did Mazda month ? Indeed it has. No matter what month it is, I think we can all agree there's never a bad time for some rotary action, and here we have plenty of that - thanks to Roo Wills from New Zealand. Roo headed out to the New Zealand Rotary Summer (yes, summer) Drags earlier this month and sent us

The best way to sort through all the material I got from the Tokyo Auto Salon is to divide things up a little and for this first in-depth post I've decided to concentrate on the best rotaries I spotted...along with a couple of other Mazdas. The RE-Amemiya stand in the first Hall has always been the first stand I visit and this year Amemiya-san had

At the beginning of the month, I posted some photos of "grassroots" RX7 drift cars from Japan and the USA. Now, I'm going to continue with some shots pro-spec rotary drift cars at D1 events on both sides of the pacific. I wish I could say that I was around to shoot some of the cars from D1's "glory days" (Haruguchi FC anyone

I hope you didn't think I forgot about Mazda during my Tokyo Auto Salon coverage. Since we're featuring Mazdas this month, I paid extra close attention to them when I was at the show. The usual suspects like RE Amemiya, AutoExe, and Pan Speed all had a presence at TAS, and Mazda itself also had large booth full of their latest models. Whether

Thanks to Dean from Mazdaspeed, a good friend of mine, we were given permission to use these photos of the new Playboy Mazda MX5 Cup cars. I didn't even realize that Playboy had a racing series at first, but I think it may be something we'll want to keep our eyes on. Just look at this whole field of similarly prepared MX5s, running extremely