The Mazda Shinari is a

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produced by the Japanese car manufacturer

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, presented at the

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in 2010. It comes in the form of a four-door coupé and its name which indicates the momentum or the start of the movement for a person or an animal, thus its slender design, resulting from a collaboration between Japanese, American and European offices is signed by Yong Wook Cho, it was the first concept car to adopt the "Kodo" style "the soul of the movement" from Mazda. The presence of many elements of standard cars such as

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s or the position of

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led to speculation about the marketing of a model standard for

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and

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such as a new

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