| Thus, under head of project Masakatsu, the concept development was turned into a competition between the Mazda design teams in Tokyo and California | |
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| With the first generation of the MX-5, the phrase was developed into five specific core design requirements: [ ]• Android and Android Auto are trademarks of Google LLC |
Launched at a time when production of small roadsters had almost come to an end, the was the only comparable volume model in production at the time of the MX-5's launch.
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| Manufactured at Mazda's , the MX-5 debuted in 1989 at the and was conceived and executed under a tightly focused design credo, 人馬一体 , meaning "oneness of horse and rider" | 6 as a budget option in some markets —recognizable by its pop-up headlights |
The Californian team proposed a , codenamed Duo 101, in line with the British roadster ancestry, but their Japanese counterparts favored the more common or the.
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