Thank you once again. My most reliable car was an '87 323 hatch. 325,000 miles doing field service work, it broke once and that was due to my neglectful maintenance. Horribly unsupportive front seats were solved by a trip to the junkyard for a pair out of a Tracer. I've been a Mazda guy since, three in the family right now. They're much better without Ford.
I was under the impression that that the rotary was a one off novelty but actually they had extensive experience developing the engine too bad it was more gas efficient. I had a Miata - great car!
Australia got the three wheel truck at 1:22 in 1959 followed up by the car at 1:30. The truck had a small amount of sales in wholesale fruit and vegetable markets snd also a few airlines that valued them for their manoeuvrability and for light loads. From then on we started getting quite a few of the more attractive vehicles. Usually different names in Australia and later as the Ford Laser, Meteor and Telstar. That helped Ford get to number one for sales in the eighties. Ford had not done that since the twenties or early thirties. Building from that , in 2023, Mazda was second only to Toyota for total car sales in Australia, with steady sales of so many models.
@@drewzerna4087 The Button plan plan was exclusively rebadging of cars made in Australia only. Usually in a reciprocal manner. No Mazda's made in Australia and no Australian Fords sold in Japan. The Ford versions of Mazda was not just Australian . Lots of Pacific rim countries got the those Fords. Later models made in Japan were definitely sold in Japan as exclusive type car at a special dealer chain. One advantage of Ford here making the Mazda based Capri was that the large exports of the Capri to the US meant Ford could bring in equivalent numbers of the Japanese made later Ford Telstars etc at a much lower rate of import duty. The Button plan stopped that as the Capri expirt credits ran out. So the Button plan Fords were Nissan based with the nearly forgotten Ford Corsair version of the Nissan and some Nissan based FWD thing. Nissan got Falcon utes with Nissan stickers on them. The Nissan based inferior cars did nowhere near as well as the Mazda connection for Ford.
Thank you for the effort and information. This was educational. I liked seeing and hearing the Holden Premier was offered as a Mazda. I had heard about that. It seems Mazda's relationship with Ford goes deep for decades and many models between Ford and Mazda.
Thank you once again. My most reliable car was an '87 323 hatch. 325,000 miles doing field service work, it broke once and that was due to my neglectful maintenance. Horribly unsupportive front seats were solved by a trip to the junkyard for a pair out of a Tracer. I've been a Mazda guy since, three in the family right now. They're much better without Ford.
I was under the impression that that the rotary was a one off novelty but actually they had extensive experience developing the engine too bad it was more gas efficient. I had a Miata - great car!
Australia got the three wheel truck at 1:22 in 1959 followed up by the car at 1:30. The truck had a small amount of sales in wholesale fruit and vegetable markets snd also a few airlines that valued them for their manoeuvrability and for light loads.
From then on we started getting quite a few of the more attractive vehicles. Usually different names in Australia and later as the Ford Laser, Meteor and Telstar. That helped Ford get to number one for sales in the eighties. Ford had not done that since the twenties or early thirties.
Building from that , in 2023, Mazda was second only to Toyota for total car sales in Australia, with steady sales of so many models.
The Button plan and the badge engineering years 👍
@@drewzerna4087 The Button plan plan was exclusively rebadging of cars made in Australia only. Usually in a reciprocal manner.
No Mazda's made in Australia and no Australian Fords sold in Japan.
The Ford versions of Mazda was not just Australian . Lots of Pacific rim countries got the those Fords. Later models made in Japan were definitely sold in Japan as exclusive type car at a special dealer chain.
One advantage of Ford here making the Mazda based Capri was that the large exports of the Capri to the US meant Ford could bring in equivalent numbers of the Japanese made later Ford Telstars etc at a much lower rate of import duty.
The Button plan stopped that as the Capri expirt credits ran out. So the Button plan Fords were Nissan based with the nearly forgotten Ford Corsair version of the Nissan and some Nissan based FWD thing. Nissan got Falcon utes with Nissan stickers on them.
The Nissan based inferior cars did nowhere near as well as the Mazda connection for Ford.
Thank you for the effort and information. This was educational. I liked seeing and hearing the Holden Premier was offered as a Mazda. I had heard about that. It seems Mazda's relationship with Ford goes deep for decades and many models between Ford and Mazda.
It seems to have been beneficial to both.
@@thehopelesscarguy Very beneficial it seems. Mazda has turned things around in recent times. They are making progress. Ford has some work to do.
I sold my 65 Malibu Wagon, 67 Camero R/S, and 68 Camero SS Convertable, and now have a Mazda CX-5.