Mazda Kiyora news - Too orangey for crows - 2008

The Paris motor show isn't far away... which must mean that a swoopy Mazda concept is on the way.

Ah yes, here it is. This is the Kiyora concept, a glassy little number described as 'a lightweight, next generation, urban compact concept car'. Erm...

Kiyora means 'concentrated fruit soft drink' in Japanese (sadly that's a lie - it actually means 'clean and pure', which is far less amusing) and, we're told, represents the harmony between driving pleasure and environmental and safety features. We don't really know what this means.

What we do know is that the Kiyora is powered by a surprisingly sensible-sounding four-cylinder direct injection petrol engine and gets Mazda's stop-start system, which means good fuel economy and low CO2 emissions.

At least, it would if it actually existed in the real world. Which it doesn't.

Nonetheless, it's another impressively wild looking concept from Mazda. But with chief designer Franz von Holzhausen defecting to Tesla last month, will this be the last of Mazda's super-swoopy concepts?

We hope not...

It's even got its own theme tune