The name “Mazda” was introduced to Japan in October 1931. Mazda started its life as a cork manufacturer back in 1920. The year 1931 was when Mazda, then called the Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd., launched the “Mazda-go”, a tricycle truck which is a first vehicle coming out of the company. The naming of the tricycle was considered by Jujiro Matsuda, the second president and substantial founder of Toyo Kogyo, and other key members
“Mazda-go”
Made by a company that was then managed by a man named Matsuda, the name “Mazda-go” sounds fitting enough. The question is, how come it was spelt “Mazda” instead of “Matsuda”? “Mazda” comes from Ahura Mazda, the god of harmony, intelligence and wisdom from the earliest civilization in West Asia. Key members of Toyo Kogyo interpreted Mazda as a symbol of the beginning of the East and the West civilization, but also a symbol of the automotive civilization and culture. Striving to make a contribution to the world peace and to be a light in the automotive industry, Toyo Kogyo was renamed Mazda Motor Corporation. “Mazda” was also a perfect way to pay respect to the substantial founder, whose family name is pronounced very close to “Mazda
مطلب لاتین بالا عینا در سایت شرکت خودروسازی مزدا ژاپن به نشانی https://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/mazda-stories/mazda/behind آمده است و بیان می کند که موسس این شرکت جوجیرو ماتسودا در1931 میلادی، این برند را با الهام از اهورامزدا خدای خرد و هوشمندی در کهن ترین تمدن آسیای غربی برگزیده است. شاید تشابه لوگوی شرکت مزدا با نماد اهورامزدا نیز اتفاقی نباشد.