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A6 MX-6 M 'ystere represents stylish departure for Mazda RV JIM ROBINSON Road & Track would print tiny pho- tos of what Bertone. Ghia, Touring, or Pininfarina brought to their stands They weren't the best photos, but it was all we had to go on. Growing up opposite the Motor City. you needed a break from Dodge Polaras and suicide-door Special to the Beaver Italian Lincolns. I nememhe an Alfa ch; Mangusta anc ticularly well better than th 33 with Jim ( omy of scale to purpose. The ability to stand the car industry on its ear simply through styling reached its high point with the Countach. Touring is gone while Ghia was swal- lowed up by Ford to produce a horridly overdecomted Mustang ll before van- ishing from Deartom's sight and mind. Through the 70s and 80s we were engulfed by the three-box wedge and badge engineering. Style was shunted to the rear in the rush for market share and mofits. better than the berran YNA. the Lows 33 with Jim Clark aboard was so slight yet pretty all at the same time being (to my mind) the definitive mating of econ- staircase in a hotel in l-rankrurt. Set between marble columns was what I first thought was a Ferrari 246 with a spoiler. It tumed out to be the design prototype of what was to be introduced the next day at the Frankfurt Auto Show as the new MX-ti. What really caught my eye was the near quarter window. all Italian 60s design at one second; yet part of a more flowing whole the next. The previous MX-6 has been okay, but not nearly as adventwesome as its clone-brother. the Ford Probe. This time something had happened. Mazda had broken with a past of not rocking the styling/engineering boat. Now this was before the RX-7 and MX-3 or the new 626 Cronos had been publicly shown. so no one knew it was part of an ever big- ger strategy to give Mazda a corporate new look which began with its cars. As was done with the first generation Os ing and Ford supplies t it.0nonesideoftheli Mich., the Probe is built vou find the MX-ti. With the 1 remains. The built along side the Probe they very V6 also a model. In hp and 164 (with a SI turbo four tion MX-t " "“A\\ - - '\"_ v' .\1.1/J.; l “I - x - - = ' “-1 " (Hum " [M IN mu? " Quad 1 - thing \I'lex = - P ' 'NIM Ilmmr N , f IUUIMMJ - - I "MW, willow! MI , Aw MA " upturn“; RAM! MRtl ' mg VIM/KL - - Ma ' No Jun m MB ”mm. 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