Mazda Grand Familia

The Mazda Grand Familia is a car that Mazda produced in Japan from 1971 to 1978, offered as a two-door coupe, a four-door sedan and a five-door station wagon, always with inline four-cylinder engines. Because Peugeot had trademarked three-digit numbers with a middle zero in many markets, it was sold as the Mazda 808 in markets including Asia, Australia and New Zealand and as the Mazda 818 in many others. Mazda meant it to replace the smaller Familia in competition with the Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sunny and Mitsubishi Colt, but the energy crisis made the Familia sell better, so the larger car became a more upscale alternative. Its rotary-powered twin was the Mazda Savanna in Japan and the RX-3 abroad. From October 1975 Kia built it in South Korea as the Brisa II.