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Amazingly, this car only spent 10 years on the road, and has been laid up since 2000! Also, I was rather confused finding it on a relatively new housing estate, generally devoid of things like this. These MKI 800s are rather uncommon now, but they survive infinitely times better than the Honda Legend, but most likely did sell a lot more as well.
Car: Ford Ka.
Engine: 1299cc in-line 4.
Power: 68 BHP.
Fuel: Petrol.
Gears: 5 manual.
Body: 5 door hatchback.
Layout: Front engine, front wheel drive.
Length: 3,620 mm.
Width: 1,631 mm.
Height: 1,409 mm.
Weight: 898 kg.
Production dates: 1996 to 2008.
Assembly: Almussafes, Spain.
Year of manufacture: 2006.
Date of first registration in the UK: 31st March 2006.
Place of registration: Worcester.
Date of last V5 issued: 4th November 2024.
Total number of keepers: 4.
Date of most recent MOT: 26th June 2024.
Mileage at last MOT: 45,881.
Date taken: 8th May 2025.
Album: Carspotting 2025
I heard it said that women drive cars, but men have love affairs with them. The risk of course in a romance is that you'll have your moments of passion but also torment. The latter I've had with some of the cars that I've owned, but never with my beloved TUD. She came into my life in 1998 and though not sleek and sexy like a Ferrari or Lamborghini, she stole my heart.
Small and nimble she could zip around corners, park in the tightest of places and "run on the smell of an oily rag" .TUD never broke down and was happy to run in the worst of weather. I finally had to break off our affair earlier this year prior to moving north to Queensland where I would need a more powerful and larger vehicle. There where tears in my eyes when I saw her being taken to a wreckers yard.
Fifth generation
International (GE; 1991–1997)
Overview:
Also calledMazda 626
Mazda Cronos (Japan)
ɛ̃fini MS-6
Ford Telstar
Autozam Clef
ProductionNovember 1991 – 1997
AssemblyJapan: Hofu
Colombia: Bogotá
United States: Flat Rock, Michigan (AAI)
DesignerYasuo Aoyagi (1989)
Body and chassis
Body style4-door sedan
5-door hatchback
LayoutTransverse front-engine, front-wheel drive
Transverse front-engine, four-wheel drive
PlatformMazda GE platform
RelatedMazda MX-6
Ford Probe
Powertrain
Engine
1.8 L FP I4
2.0 L FS-DE I4
2.0 L KF-ZE V6
2.5 L KL-DE V6
2.5 L KL-ZE V6
2.0 L RFT Comprex diesel I4
Transmission5-speed manual
4-speed automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase2,610 mm (102.8 in)
Length4,670–4,695 mm (183.9–184.8 in) (sedan/hatchback)
Width1,750 mm (68.9 in)
Height1,400 mm (55.1 in)
Curb weight1,180–1,340 kg (2,601–2,954 lb) (sedan/hatchback)
For the fifth generation, GE series sedan and hatchback, the Capella name was dropped—although export markets retained the 626 title. Its nameplate replacements, the Mazda Cronos (sedan) and ɛ̃fini MS-6 (hatchback) that launched in November 1991 were pitched to Japanese customers instead. Built on the GE platform, the hatchback-only MS-6 was launched under the ɛ̃fini brand, as a separate car from the sedan-only Cronos, as Mazda was at the beginning of an ambitious five-brand expansion plan of doubling sales. Including the badge-engineered Ford Telstar (sold at Japanese Ford dealerships called Autorama), the Mazda MX-6 coupe, and the Autozam Clef, a total of five cars were spawned off the same platform, launched under four different brands in Japan over a two-year period.
All of these models ended their production run prematurely, most likely due to the difficulties involved in promoting so many new nameplates as the Japanese economy began to feel the effects of the recession as a result of the Japanese asset price bubble from 1985-1991. While the MS-6 shared the Cronos GE platform, it was marketed as the more sporty of the two. The Capella badge lived on with the wagon/van versions on the previous GV series until 1999. Until 1989, Japanese car taxation used a car's width as a key determinant. The Cronos and its siblings all exceed the critical 1,700 mm (66.9 in) level in width. The series GE platform shared the same width dimension as the luxury brand ɛ̃fini MS-8 and ɛ̃fini MS-6, sharing the 2.5 V6. Moving in accord with early-1990s zeitgeist, Mazda considered width a key factor in the Cronos' sales failure, and proceeded to create a narrower stopgap model from the CG platform. This car was introduced in 1994 as the new CG series Capella sedan.
Export
Nonetheless, the GE Cronos and MS-6 continued to be sold as the Mazda 626 in nearly all export markets. The 626 was again Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for a second time in 1992.
The European (E-spec) and Asian (JDM) models had many differences versus the North American (A-spec) models. These include: raised turn signal side markers vs the A-Spec flush mounted side markers, small fog lights with silver bezels vs the A-Spec full fitting fog lights, different interior cloth patterns, projector headlamps (glass lenses), a 1.8 L FP engine, and a hatchback model. Europe also received a diesel-engined version, using the "Comprex" pressure-wave supercharged RF engine seen in the previous generation JDM Capella. Power in Europe is 75 PS (55 kW) ECE at 4000 rpm, while the Japanese model claims 82 PS (60 kW) JIS at the same engine speed.[15]
For the first time for a Mazda, the 626 began overseas manufacture manufacture in the US at Flat Rock, Michigan on 1 September 1992 for the 1993 model year. The car was originally known as the "626 Cronos" in Canada, but dropped the Cronos for the 1996 model year. Mazda's 2.5 L V6 engine debuted to rave reviews. Though the 626's manual transmission was highly regarded, Four-cylinder 626s from 1994 onwards used the Ford CD4E automatic transmission (designated by Mazda as LA4A-EL), which was an attempt to solve some of the 1993 model's transmission related issues. The CD4E was manufactured by Ford at their Batavia, Ohio facility. The CD4E was manufactured in Batavia, Ohio under the partnership name of ZF Batavia; a joint venture between Ford and ZF Friedrichshafen AG. It wasn't until a few years after the fourth generation of the Mazda 626 was produced that it became known for its extremely high failure rate, thus making the change in 1994 to the CD4E an irrelevant one. It is widely known to transmission specialists that the CD4E overheats due to a poorly designed valve body and torque converter. Mazda issued a couple of Technical Service Bulletins (0400502, 01598, 003/97K, 006/95) regarding the transmission and torque converter. Dealerships were briefly instructed to install an external transmission cooler, but at cost to the owner and only if requested. The CD4E was produced until 2008 at Batavia. No recall was ever issued for a single year of the CD4E, causing a loss of confidence from the general public in years to come. In 1994, a passenger side airbag was added, whilst some models of the 1994 and 1995 Mazda 626 2.0L automatics were outfitted with Ford's EEC-IV diagnostic system. In North America, the V6 spread to the LX trim in addition to the leather ES trim. New for 1996 and 1997 models were a redesigned hood (raised center portion), chrome grille fairing (attached to the hood), and the introduction of the On Board Diagnostics II revision (OBD-II).
In Colombia the car was named 626 Matsuri to differentiate from the past version that was sold at the same time.
Mazda New Zealand assembled this generation for four years with few changes. Ford's variants (since 1987 all built in the same Ford-Mazda joint venture Vehicle Assemblers of New Zealand (VANZ) factory in Wiri, South Auckland) had minor styling and equipment differences (the top Telstar hatchback had an electric sunroof) and anti-lock brakes were now standard on some models, for which factory engineers had to build a special test rig at the end of the assembly line. These were also the first 626/Telstar models to have factory fitted air conditioning, though only on the top Limited (626) and TX-5 Ghia (Telstar) five-door hatchbacks.
[Text from Wikipedia]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Capella
The version shown here is a International-Specification 626 Liftback.
This miniland-scale Lego Mazda 626 Capella Sedan (GE - 1991) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 92nd Build Challenge, - "Stuck in the 90's", - all about vehicles from the decade of the 1990s.
Essentially a 5-door hatchback version of the Mini, designed by the same man and built on the same general principals. Except for the fact that the brakes had a lot to be desired and it suffered from that British Leyland touch of unreliability.
However, the Maxi does have a claim to fame that's very famous, but often overlooked. In November 1979 during the Iranian Islamic Revolution in Tehran, one of the British embassy's first secretaries rescued five American diplomats who had managed to escape the stormed US Embassy in his own private British registered sandglow Maxi 1750HL complete with its GB sticker, once rescued the British secretary then discovered that the British Embassy had now also been overrun, and so undertook a treacherous drive across Tehran to the north of the city to the British compound of Gholhak.
Once at Gholhak, the British diplomats and families smuggled the Americans in the Maxi again to the home of a Thai cook who worked for a member of the US Embassy staff. Ten days later they moved on to the home of the Canadian number two diplomat from where the CIA hatched a plot to rescue their diplomats using Canadian passports and posing as movie makers. This was the basis for the US film Argo (2012). However, in this dramatization, the British role (and subsequently the Maxi's) were written out, as director Ben Affleck stated he wished to make the escaped diplomats look helpless and desperate to the studio audience.
As you can imagine, the lack of Maxi resulted in much disappointment from British Leyland fans (but for the general movie-going audience it's neither here nor there, I still enjoyed the movie even without the Maxi).
Still a significant number of this generation of Civic around, subjectively they far out number the surviving Escort/Astra/Golf of this era despite lower sales back in the day. This one is in a more unusual and quite attractive colour.
100th Anniversary Edition
Brussels Motor Show
Autosalon Brussel
Salon de l'Auto Bruxelles
Brussels - Belgium
January 2023
It's amazing what you can find when waiting in the countryside for the next train. Scouting the lake at Wrawby Junction for some interesting wildlife, I spotted something lurking in the depths. Not sure of the exact species; probably either Fordus Fiestii or the lesser spotted Nova Vauxhallus.
Image enhanced to provide a bit more colour and contrast.
Canon EOS 450D f/8 320th/sec iso 200
Time to update my diecast collection with some of the latest offerings from Oxford Diecast. Fiesta Mk 1 and VW Golf stand on their drives. In the early seventies most people still drove saloons.
The R16 was presented in jan. 1965. The hatchback concept in combination with front-wheel traction was at the time very modern.
It was designed by Philippe Charbonneaux (1917-1998) in cooperation with Gaston Juchet.
This faster TS version followed in 1968.
For 1971 the R16 got a restyled rear end.
1565 cc engine runs on LPG.
1119 kg.
Production R16: 1965-Jan. 1980.
Production R16 TS: 1968-1977, this particular version as Type R1154: 1971-1977.
Original first license number: Oct. 1, 1974.
New Dutch semi-historical license number: July 28, 2005.
Amstelveen, Ouderkerkerlaan, March 12, 2015.
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I found this car on Street View, in the same street as the previous R4. She has a beautiful metallic blue colour.
The R11 was related to the R9. The R9 had a 4-door Saloon body, while the R11 was a 5-door Hatchback.
Both variations were styled by Robert Opron.
The R9/R11 was also assembled in Valladolid, Spain.
Production R11 in France: 1983-1989.
Number seen: 2.
Coimbra (P.), Rua Fonte do Castanheiro, Juni 2014.
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84th Geneva International Motor Show
Internationaler Auto-Salon Genf
Suisse - Schweiz - Switzerland
March 2014
Caught this BYD prototype car at the intersection of Diagonal Road and Sturt Road in Marion.
I'm assuming this is their new Dolphin hatchback based on what I have seen in the news from the automotive world.
It doesn't seem to be on any Australian registration. What is in the place of number plates, are a pair of photos of a Chinese number plate reading "B6601" placed on what looks to be a table or some sort of flat surface.
A larger and better cut photo of that same number plate can be seen affixed to the rear window.
As you may be able to tell, I don't photograph cars from China and that is because I do not have an interest in them. As for this one, I never see a prototype out on the road so, I definitely wanted to take it's photo no matter where it's coming from.
My mom at age 20 and the car she learned how to drive with, my father's 1973 Pontiac Ventura hatchback. It had a Pontiac 350 V8 but very few options otherwise... (manual steering and brakes!)