Mazda MX-30

Among the 180 Mazda entries in the MotorJury library, the Mazda MX-30 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 2020. 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 MX-30 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. 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 Tesla Tesla Model Y, the Porsche Porsche Taycan, the Kia Kia EV6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mazda MX-30 reads like this: the record lists its engine as unbulleted list | 830 cc single-rotor Wankel rotary (generator only) (PHEV) | 1997 cc e-Skyactiv-G I4 (MHEV); quoted output is Unbulleted list | 105 kW (BEV) | 125 kW (PHEV) | 107 kW (MHEV); kerb weight is recorded at 1645 –; drive goes through unbulleted list | Single-speed automatic transmission (BEV, PHEV) | 6-speed Skyactiv-Drive automatic (MHEV); the layout is unbulleted list | Front-motor, front-wheel-drive (BEV, PHEV) | Front-engine, all-wheel-drive (MHEV). Worked together, those figures give roughly 64 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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 MX-30 sits alongside the Mazda BT-50, the Mazda T2000, the Efini MS-8, the Mazda 121. Design is credited to Yōichi Matsuda. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Hiroshima (Hiroshima Plant).

On the record

For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 27 mpg combined, which works out near $2,450 a year in fuel at current prices.

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 MX-30 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.