Mazda Motor Corporation (Japanese: マツダ株式会社, Hepburn: Matsuda Kabushiki-Gaisha), commonly referred to as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan. In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly one million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. During this time, Mazda was the 15th-largest automaker in terms of production globally. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)