MILAN(Italy) — Mazda has formally exposed the Shinari, a four-door “coupe” concept that launchs the company’s new Kodo design language.
Shinari looks good enough to stand on its own, but Mazda in fact has no direct production plans for the four-seater, judging from what little its stylish shared with press at a preview here, ahead of the concept’s formal unveiling at the 2010 Paris Auto Show in late September.
Mazda highlight that Kodo — said to translate as “soul of motion” — was teamwork among its design studios in Japan, Europe and the U.S., and is planned to replace the Nagare design language that graced such recent making cars as the latest Mazda 3.
In particular, the front-end design of the Shinari, with its name aluminum wing, was explain as the new face of future Mazda production vehicles. According to Britain’s Autocar, Shinari’s “famous, gaping-mouth grille . . . does away with Nagare’s ‘smiling face.’”
The concept’s interior, calculated in California, features aluminum trim, chronometer-style gauges and leather-covered seats and surfaces, as well as an asymmetric front seating present plus deep rear buckets.
Shinari looks good enough to stand on its own, but Mazda in fact has no direct production plans for the four-seater, judging from what little its stylish shared with press at a preview here, ahead of the concept’s formal unveiling at the 2010 Paris Auto Show in late September.
Mazda highlight that Kodo — said to translate as “soul of motion” — was teamwork among its design studios in Japan, Europe and the U.S., and is planned to replace the Nagare design language that graced such recent making cars as the latest Mazda 3.
In particular, the front-end design of the Shinari, with its name aluminum wing, was explain as the new face of future Mazda production vehicles. According to Britain’s Autocar, Shinari’s “famous, gaping-mouth grille . . . does away with Nagare’s ‘smiling face.’”
The concept’s interior, calculated in California, features aluminum trim, chronometer-style gauges and leather-covered seats and surfaces, as well as an asymmetric front seating present plus deep rear buckets.
