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Mazda2 Rebadged as a Toyota

Last week, we learned that Toyota will be selling a rebadged Mazda2 to US consumers in the next few years. Mazda plans to assemble the all-new 2 subcompact in a Mexican factory located in Guanajuato starting in 2014, and there will also be a Toyota-badged version.
Toyota based on Mazda2 1 photo
Photo: theophiluschin.com
We have no idea why this is, since Toyota already has the Yaris, but we’re not going to challenge the biggest automaker in the world.

The new Mazda factory will have a production capacity to about 140,000 cars a year, so presumably there will be a lot of these rebadged cars around.

We thought it’d be interesting to show you what the current Mazda2 would look like with the front end off a Toyota. It’s not a bad looking exercise, though the next-generation car will be much different.

Rendering via Theophilus Chin
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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