At the risk of turning this into some sort of Mazda tribute site (pun not intended), yesterday the company announced that at the forthcoming Tokyo Motor Show (October 28-November 5), in addition to showing a “next-generation product concept” which is quite clearly a hatchback as indicated by that teaser picture, and even more clearly from this photo which is highly likely to be the SKTACTIV-Vehicle Architecture that probably underpins that hatch it will also be showing what it is describing as its “next-generation design vision,” which is, in effect, upping the ante on the KODO design language that was manifest in a production vehicle in the form of the Mazda CX-5 in 2012: To be sure, vehicle manufacturers often show speed forms that look completely appealing and just as impossible at things like motor shows.
