Bentley just celebrated its 100th anniversary and in 2020, Mazda will do the same. To celebrate its centenary year, Mazda has posted nearly 400 photos showing nearly all of the important vehicles built over the past 100 years. We've chosen some of our favorites here.

100 years ago in 1920, Mazda wasn't even thinking about building cars. It wasn't even called Mazda yet. It was a Hiroshima-based cork producer called Toyo Cork Kogyo Co. until an industrialist named Jujiro Matsuda took over the company in 1921. Matsuda transformed the company into a tool producer first, then a vehicle manufacturer. The first vehicle was a three-wheeled truck called the Mazda-Go produced in 1931. Even back then, Mazda made huge innovations like a four-speed transmission in 1938 that reduced fuel consumption by 20 percent.

Mazda resumed building trucks after the atomic bombing at Hiroshima until the first passenger car, the Mazda R360, was produced in 1960. This is when the Mazda we all know and love was born.