Mazda Sports Corner

[roadsternut]

Anyone have any good images of the logo for Mazda Sports Corner? Mazda Sports Corner was the name of the Mazda works racing team, before it became Mazdaspeed.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/f0fa6042e51c356235f0b4df676ee788/tumblr_mz8sgiBtLD1qgu7xdo1_500.jpg
http://cdn.mkimg.carview.co.jp/minkara/blog/000/016/706/908/16706908/p1.jpg

[Professor Dwight]

Sorry for thread bump, but I’m working on some of this myself.

Near as I can tell, Mazda Sports Corner never had a logo, since it was started by Takayoshi Ohashi out of Mazda Auto Tokyo (Mazda’s largest dealer at the time.)

Historically, I think this is the closest to an origin design:

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SM80275_Mazda-Capella-RX2-640x427.jpg

Later, it looked like this for a short time before becoming “Mazdaspeed.” But again, no real logo.

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/re-sugiyama-mazda-rx-3-gc-gurachan02.jpg




Anyone have any good images of the logo for Mazda Sports Corner? Mazda Sports Corner was the name of the Mazda works racing team, before it became Mazdaspeed.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/f0fa6042e51c356235f0b4df676ee788/tumblr_mz8sgiBtLD1qgu7xdo1_500.jpg
http://cdn.mkimg.carview.co.jp/minkara/blog/000/016/706/908/16706908/p1.jpg

[Roadster7]

http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mazda-rx-3-mazda-sports-corner.jpg

[Professor Dwight]

Yup. Just a generic typeface on all the catalogs and the early cars; no consistency to it as it varies across catalogs and livery.

I don’t think Mazda Sports Corner ever had a logo/designed typeface until they became Mazdaspeed in 1983.

[mattgold]

I had another one on a similar topic...

Does anyone recognize this logo:
https://i.imgur.com/kM3kN5Z.jpg

It's on a Mazdaspeed steering wheel and also appears on the box itself (so Im ruling out 3rd party... but who knows):
https://i.imgur.com/AfrSsnI.jpg

I'm guessing it's a predecessor to the 90s Mazdaspeed logo that looks like this:
https://i.imgur.com/FxLN2rL.png


Anybody?

[GoMifune]

I'm guessing it's a predecessor to the 90s Mazdaspeed logo that looks like this:
https://i.imgur.com/FxLN2rL.png


Anybody?

I'm fairly certain that while the logotype may have originated in the 90's, the logo mark above the text is much newer than that. I remember seeing it for the first time in either 2009 or 2010.

Never seen the yellow/gray one before, it certainly does look like a precursor to the current one. I've been searching on Google for other instances of it being used and have yet to find anything.

[Phatmiata]

Yes that is a VERY old logo from Mazdaspeed Club, pre-1990s, I have a photo of that somewhere in my Mazdaspeed catalogs, you gonna bite on that one? $900 is kinda high IMHO, sold mine last month for $500 MINT and everyone thought i was selling too high LOL


https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4754/39631596805_cc1fe62811_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/23o7hZc)FS: Vintage 1990’s era Mazdaspeed Japan Steering Wheel (https://flic.kr/p/23o7hZc) by Randy George (https://www.flickr.com/photos/phatmiata/), on Flickr

[MiataMane]

^dream steering wheel set up right there.