[supafamous]

Originally Posted by AstulzerRZD

They’re basically Japanese Saab.
Instead of night mode and fighter jet stuff, fanboys love the knobs n Jinba Ittai bs

They blow money on all sorts of weird shit, get acquired by a bigger company than wants their engine tech.

GM got Saab’s turbo expertise & turbo 4
Toyota used Skyactiv expertise to build Dynamic Force

And I LOVED Saab and was real sad when it was gone. I'd feel the same way about Mazda, I love their quirkiness but they seem like one economic crisis away from going bankrupt all the time because they want to plot their own course on damn near everything.

For the sake of their survival I wish they would just adopt Toyota powertrains for their commodity products (or have Toyota fund their powertrain work which then gets used in Toyota products - like the rumour of Toyota using Mazda's inline 6 in the next Supra). Don't build your own fricking hybrids!