http://www.worldcarfans.com/news.cfm...t-la-auto-show

First indication of future design
Mazda Motor Corporation today announced the global reveal of an all-new concept car, Nagare (pronounced na-gah-reh), at the Greater Los Angeles International Auto Show, during a press conference at 4:05 PM on November 29, 2006. Following on the heels of three very successful and exploratory Mazda design concepts – Kabura, Sassou and Senku – from last year’s show season, Nagare is the first indication of Mazda’s future design direction.

According to Mazda’s newly appointed global design director, Laurens van den Acker, Nagare sums up the future of Mazda design in one deceptively simple word -Flow. “Nagare is a celebration of proportions and surface language that will evolve into subsequent designs planned for presentation at future international autoshows. Nagare examines light and shadow, and begins to reveal the global design cues for the next generation of Mazda vehicles.”

Franz Von Holzhausen, Director of Design for Mazda North American Operations, who headed the Nagare design team in Irvine, Calif., describes Nagare as an entirely new and unique expression of Zoom-Zoom: “Inspired by the movement of nature’s elements, our designers have captured motion, energy and lightness and translated it into a beautiful language of lines and forms that are powerful yet effortless, provocative yet strikingly seductive.”

And there’s much more to come, too, as Mazda continues to evolve flow through future models. For now, Mazda enthusiasts can experience Nagare as an indication of Mazda Design’s confident step in a new direction.

Other vehicles on display at the Show include the recently launched Mazda CX-7 crossover SUV, the Mazda CX-9 three-row, seven-passenger SUV, which arrives in Mazda dealerships in early 2007, and the brilliantly designed MX-5 Miata Power Retractable Hard Top, along with the entire 2007 Mazda lineup.

 

very interesting..wonder what it will look like..

 

me to, i hope its something cool looking. from this pic it looks like the car can jump into hyperspace. if so then yah it has to be a sport car i hope

 

that looks like a shot down the side of a kabura to me.

 

kabaura doesnt have skinny tail lights like that. here is the artwork of kabura and here is back of the kabura. the back of the kabura doesnt even look like the artwork that is on the worldofcars site. and also the kanji on both pics are different. but who know's if anytihing, it looks like senku. but we sure dont want that to happen lol

 

The Nagare is mentioned in this Mazda research document on aerodynamics:

http://www.nec.co.jp/hpc/sx-e/sx-world/no28/e6_7.pdf

 

From the restricted view it looks like the Senku a bit.

Paul.

 

How long are those damn intake runners Paul?

 

Calm down, calm down, will you .

I'll call you today.

Now back to your regularly scheduled 'Nagare'.

Paul.

 

When is LA Auto Show again? Man, no one can find out Mazda's plans unless they announce it!!!
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hmm, might have to go to the LA Auto Show for you guys...

 

The Kenji on the Nagare means 'flow'
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LA Auto show i think is in early January?

 

December 1-10. I'll be going the last weekend when half the cars have probably been vandalized.

 

wow I waited months for this.....

 

http://www.mazda.com/publicity/relea...11/061115.html

Here is Mazda's press release, dated today the 15th, saying the announcement is the 29th at the LA Auto Show? Go figure... they seem a bit "date challenged"...

 

I thought the same thing, but I didn't say anything because I thought I had gone back to the future again after pwning some n00bs and hitting 88mph the other day.

 

Nagare, or "flow" --

In Japanese, a different form of this verb using the same character (nagase), means "to flush," as in a toilet.

http://www.toto.co.jp/kids/song/

So if this car ends up looking anything like the Kabura, well, I think that is somehow fitting...

 

Zoom Zoom Zoom

 

i was seeing the posted artwork as having the tail lamps lit up. im not saying it is the kabura, just looks like a side panel shot IMO.

I bet mazda just likes to trickle little things out that may or may not be real, true or otherwise just to watch the boards light up like it does. I bet it gets them off.

 

That my be good fun for them, but the only thing this type of 'maybe, perhaps, no, but almost, but not really' superior performance fluff dis-information does is get me pissed off at Mazda - Hear that Mazda??

They either should put up or shutup, produce a serious performance car or say no thanks, as this play of etherial Japanese word games is seriously boring.....

 

It could be open on the 29th for the press/VIP and opening for the public on Dec 1st.

 

flush flusch flush!

 

straight flush?

nut flush?

ace high flush?

 

industrial strength toilet flush!! *whooooooosh*