Mazda G platform

The Mazda G platform is an automobile platform for midsize cars. It has been used by a number of vehicles from Mazda in Japan and abroad.

Prior to 1981, Mazda coded the rear wheel drive Capella platform as "S1" in the VIN code. This chassis was dropped for the Capella, but retained (in a modified form) for the RX-7 as the Mazda F platform.

GC was Mazda's first front wheel drive midsize car platform. Available body styles were two-door coupé, four-door sedan, and five-door hatchback. The Ford Telstar hatchback version was called the TX5, there was no Telstar version of the coupé. Production was in Japan, with local assembly in Australia (as a Telstar only), New Zealand, Taiwan and South Africa where the model continued in production until 1993.

The updated GD platform was introduced in 1987 in Japan and later elsewhere. It spawned a station wagon variant, the GV. Production in the United States was started at the AutoAlliance International plant in Flat Rock, Michigan.

GV is a station wagon version of the GD platform. GV production continued well past its sibling, lasting until 1996.

The Japan-market Mazda Capella never used the GE platform. Rather, a new model (the Mazda Cronos) was introduced alongside the Capella, while the Capella continued on with the GC platform until 1993 and was then moved to the CG platform for 1994 through 1997. As Ford and Mazda shared engineering technologies, the GE platform is related to the Ford CDW27/CD162/CD132 used for the Ford Mondeo and Jaguar X-Type.

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