 the mazda cosmo was a grand touring coupÃ© produced by mazda motor corporation from 1967 to 1995. throughout its history, the cosmo served as a "halo" vehicle for mazda, with the first cosmo successfully launching the mazda wankel engine. the final generation of cosmo served as mazda's flagship vehicle in japan, being sold as the eunos cosmo through its luxury eunos division in japan. mazda chose to use the name cosmo, reflecting international cultural fascination with the space race, as mazda wanted to showcase the rotary engine as forward-thinking, with a focus on future developments and technology. ==series l10a/l10b (1967â1972)==  the first mazda to bear the cosmo name (called the 110s on models intended for export) was the first 2-rotor rotary engine powered series car. a prototype was introduced at the 1964 tokyo motor show after the introduction of the german made nsu spider also in 1964 at the frankfurt motor show, and 80 pre-production cosmos were produced for the mazda test department (20) and for dealership testing (60) between 1965 and 1966. full production began in may 1967 and lasted through 1972, though cosmos were built by hand at a rate of only about one per day, for a total of 1,519 (343 series i cars and 1,176 series ii cars)."the rotary club", don sherman, automobile magazine, february 2008, pp 76â79 the car was also featured in the show return of ultraman.cosmo sport erstes auto mit einem zweischeiben wankelmotor german cosmos were built in five batches: {|class=wikitable |- !date !number !engine !description |- |align=right|1963||align=right|2||align=center|8a||prototype cosmo |- |align=right|1964|
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