High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mazda used the Cronos
name in Japan from 1991 until 1995 for a redesign of the Mazda
Capella. This vehicle platform (GE) was sold in the United States
as the Mazda 626 during the same period. In Japan, the station
wagon variant of the older-generation GD Capella remained in
production. All three models were replaced with the GF in 1997, and
the Cronos name was retired. The Cronos' GE platform was
central to Mazda's ambitious expansion plan of doubling sales
in a five-year span. Including the badge-engineered Ford Telstar, a
total of six cars were spawned off the same platform, launched
under five different brands in Japan over a two-year period. All of
these models ended their production run as flops, most likely due
to the difficulties involved in promoting so many new nameplates at
the same time.
