The Mazda Kabura Concept

Mazda Kabura

The essence of Mazda’s Zoom-Zoom spirit is to provide customers with stylish, insightful, spirited products capable of enriching their lives in exciting ways. At this year’s North American International Auto Show (in Detroit, Michigan), Mazda is presenting Kabura, a design concept that ventures beyond the compact sports coupe norm to explore several fresh ideas that could appear in future production models.

• To deliver the true "Soul of a Sportscar" is the essence of every Mazda, so Kabura incorporates the front-engine, rear-drive layout universally admired by driving enthusiasts and long delivered by Mazda’s MX-5 and rotary-engined sportscars.
  
• To support youthful lifestyles, Kabura stretches the bounds of interior versatility in radical directions. Replacing the typical 2+2 layout is a clever 3+1 seating arrangement. This presents a new interior concept giving greater passenger comfort, compared to a traditional coupe, without increasing weight or size. Obligingly accommodating spur-of-the-moment adventures and impulsive shopping sprees, all passenger seats fold flat to make way for snow boards, shopping bags and all the tools of an active life.
  
• While Kabura has the presence of an exotic sportscar, it has the practicality and affordability that youth yearn for and can afford.

Kabura is not only the first Mazda compact coupe for the 21st century, it’s also the first project guided by Mazda North American Operations’ (MNAO) Director of Design Franz von Holzhausen, who joined Mazda in February 2005 from GM. The 37-year-old von Holzhausen studied industrial design at Syracuse University (New York State) and graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.