A redesigned grille, headlights, bumpers and tail-lights, a revised dashboard and new trim and colours summed up the mild Metro makeover for the new millennium. Like the Bubble 1.3-litre had a decade...

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Mazda in Japan finally had a badly needed success on its hands with the 121 Metro, a spacious, utilitarian light car with a rugged pseudo off-road look. But Australians had little love for the box that...

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A yawning currency gap meant Mazda Australia was struggling to keep the 121 price competitive, so it split the 121 Mk2 into two with the January ’94 revision, which remained largely untouched stylistically....

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As if to reflect the seemingly limitless aspirations (and budgets) of the late-1980s Japanese bubble economy, Mazda chose a unique “bubble” design for its 1991 Mk2 121, while engineering a...

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A redesigned grille, body-hued outside trim, revised fabrics and instrumentation, new colours and improved seats mark the mini Mazda’s minor facelift. The Mk1 121 lived on after the demise of the...

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Mazda worked with shareholder Ford to produce its first modern light car class entry, the 121. Built in Japan and slotting below the bigger 323, the 121 was offered in a single body, engine and gearbox...

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