I have fond memories of this extinct and fun car, learning about the engine, tinkering with basic mechanical repairs on my first car as a high schooler. I now spend a lot of time tinkering with Home Assistant. And while I'm no longer a Mazda owner, I am reminded why they are no longer relevant. Because they really haven't done anything innovative since the rotary engine.

My memories now for Mazda will possibly be as an extinct car brand who used one of its last breaths paying a lawyer to kill an open-source API integration. Pretty dumb.