This is the Hakaze concept car and it's the latest in a recent glut of such cars to come from Mazda, as the company tries to nail down its future design direction.
And while you might be thinking that this looks like a bit of a wacky concept car with Lamborghini-style doors and an interior inspired by kite-surfing (and it is) apparently, it could be closer to production reality than you'd think. Senior Mazda execs are already talking about putting the Hakaze into production and not as some watered-down version that's been hacked and compromised to fit on an existing platform. Nope, even such far-out item as those flip-up doors and the mini-cams that replace the wing mirrors are being penciled in to hit showrooms unchanged.
And don't think that the Hakaze will conflict with the shortly-arriving CX-7 crossover either. The CX-7 is a bigger, Mazda 6-based car, whereas the Hakaze is, in spite of its imposing appearance, closer to a 3 hatchback in size.
We'll see you down the local Mazda dealer in a year or so to find out if it happens or not.
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