Mazda Biante

Among the 180 Mazda entries in the MotorJury library, the Mazda Biante holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2008. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Mazda Biante properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan 370Z, the Tesla Tesla Roadster, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Tiguan — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mazda Biante reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 L Mazda L engine#2.0 L (LF-DE, LF-VE, LF-VD) / MZR LF-VD Overhead camshaft#Dual overhead camshaft / DOHC Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L Skyactiv#2.0 L / Skyactiv-G (PE-VPS) ; kerb weight is recorded at 1640-1770 kg; drive goes through 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 5-speed automatic / 6-speed Skyactiv#Skyactiv-Drive / Skyactiv-Drive automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Mazda story

Within Mazda's own catalogue the Mazda Biante sits alongside the Mazda BT-50, the Mazda T2000, the Efini MS-8, the Mazda 121. The record names the Mazda Bongo Friendee as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to engine = / 2.0 L Mazda L engine#2.0 L (LF-DE, LF-VE, LF-VD) / MZR LF-VD Overhead camshaft#Dual overhead camshaft / DOHC Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L Skyactiv#2.0 L / Skyactiv-. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Hiroshima (Hiroshima (Mazda factory) / Hiroshima Plant).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Mazda Biante was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.