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Mazda Millenia | |
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Overview | |
Manufacturer | Mazda |
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Production | 1993–2002 |
Assembly | Japan: Hiroshima (Hiroshima Plant) |
Designer | Yujiro Daikoku (1990)[1] |
Body and chassis | |
Class | Executive car |
Body style | 4-door sedan |
Layout | Front-engine, front-wheel-drive |
Platform | Mazda TA platform |
Powertrain | |
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Transmission |
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Dimensions | |
Wheelbase | 2,751 mm (108.3 in) |
Length |
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Width | 1,770 mm (69.7 in) |
Height | 1,394 mm (54.9 in) |
The Mazda Millenia (officially written as millenia[2]) was an automobile manufactured by Mazda in Japan from 1993 to 2002. The Millenia was originally planned as the one of the first models for Mazda's proposed luxury brand Amati.
At the time of its release, it was the first and only production car in the world to employ a Miller cycle engine,[3][4] a design which Mazda would not use again for six more years until the second generation Mazda2.
Having been developed for a separate market from typical Mazda customers was engineered to far greater levels of perceived quality than existing Mazda cars, such as interior plastic quality, panel gap and thicker paint coating, with Mazda claiming this attention to detail was intended to set "standards for at least ten years".[5]