Mazda Motor Corporation

Akie Kondo

Osamu Kameda

Junichi Okita

Hitoshi Akutagawa

Ichiro Hirose

Sakumi Hasetoh

Yoshimichi Tanaka

A powertrain includes an engine and a transmission and has a center inertial axis extending in a transverse direction of the vehicle body. The powertrain is mounted on the vehicle body for inertial movement about the center inertial axis by a pair of elastic mountings, disposed on opposite sides of the powertrain and not below the inertial axis. Another elastic mounting is disposed behind the powertrain. An exhaust pipe assembly, extending rearwardly and down behind the powertrain from the engine, is flexibly supported by a retainer connected, either directly or through the other elastic mounting, to the powertrain.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Akie Kondo