Mazda 1500 Estate

Mazda 1500 Estate

Jupiter spied this on his travels, in Central America, and had to check the badges to see what it was. A Mazda 1500 estate, apparently, also know as a first generation Mazda Luce. Here is the wikipedia article. First thoughts were, 'what a lot of glass', and then the second thought was how flat the windows are. It looks all complete, and in reasonable condition, especially for this area. Unusually for a car in this locale it doesn't have window tints, which when combined with such a big glass area must make it pretty warm inside (presumably there would be no air-con). They were styled by Bertone, and certainly look good.


These must be pretty rare, no idea how many there are left in the World, but howmanyleft.co.uk tell us there are only 4 left in Great Britain, by way of an example. No idea how it ended up where it is; most older cars here were imported from the United States, but only the Mazda 1800, not the 1500, were officially imported to the US.

If you can tell us more about the car, leave a message below, and if you want my full-sized pics, send a message and I'll send them to you.