Mazda is working quick and hard to increase its market share in the United States to 2.5 percent with hopes to have sales reach 400,000 units by 2014. The Japanese automaker has never sold 400,000 vehicles in its nearly 40 years in this country. In the works are four new or majorly redesigned vehicles by [...]
Mazda said that it’s making ‘real-word’ fuel-efficiency a part of its brand that has previously touted sport handling. Mazda aims to increase U.S. sales volume by 74 percent by mid-decade from 2010. Next week, Mazda will kick of sales of the new 2012 Mazda3 with a new SKYACTIV 2.0 liter 4-cylinder gasoline engine. Prices for [...]
Mazda has finally dropped pricing on the 2012 Mazda3, which includes the first of the brand’s all-new fuel-efficient SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY. “The Mazda3 is the core of the Mazda line-up and continues to be the standard by which all other compact cars are measured,” said Jim O’Sullivan, president and CEO, MNAO. “Because of the importance of this [...]
It’s time for another Let’s Talk Numbers battle and today we are focusing on two popular hot hatchbacks – the 2011 Volkswagen GTI and the 2011 Mazdaspeed3. These two hot-hatches have always been the center of debate for youngsters in the market and today we’re here to let you settle the score with some help [...]
Looking for a cool affordable car for under $18,000? The experts at Kelley Blue Book’s www.kbb.com are here to help with their list of the 2011 Top 10 Coolest New Cars Under $18,000. This year, Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com editors the 2012 Fiat 500 as their No. 1 pick on their ‘Cool Cars’ list. “We [...]
Mazda confirmed earlier this month that it will end production of the Mazda6 at its joint venture with Ford in Flat Rock, Michigan. Following that, the Japanese automaker announced recently that it has signed formal agreements and begun preparations to establish a Mazda vehicle production facility in Mexico with Sumitomo Corporation. Through the new joint venture, Mazda [...]
Mazda said on Wednesday that it is recalling about 494,500 units of the Mazda3 (know as the Mazda Axela in other parts of the world) globally to fix a glitch in an electronic part that could prevent the windshield wipers from working. A Mazda spokeswoman said that no accidents were reported related to the issue. [...]
Mazda announced today that its cumulative production of the Mazda3 hit 3 million units on April 26, 2011. What took Mazda so long to tell us? We have no idea but hey, never too late for celebration. This milestone was achieved in just seven years and ten months since production of the first-generation model commenced, [...]
We saw a couple of compact fuel-efficient models at the 2011 New York Auto Show. Mazda came to the Big Apple with the new 2012 Mazda3, which joins the 40 mpg high fuel-economy club in the compact segment. The 2012 Mazda3 will be Mazda’s first North American application of SKYACTIV technologies. The 2012 model is [...]
The earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan continues to delay car imports from Japan. Mazda told its U.S. dealers today to stop ordering vehicles made in Japan as the company prepares to shutdown plants again after a brief reopening. Mazda spokesman Jay Amestoy said that the suspension affects the May allocation for Mazda’s U.S. sales [...]
