Mazda Motor Corporation (マツダ株式会社 Matsuda Kabushiki-gaisha^?), commonly referred to just as Mazda, is a Japanese automaker based inFuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.^[4]

In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide.^[5] In 2011, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.