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MAZDA’S MX-5 has been rated by used car buyers as their top used choice of the ‘noughties’. Research by online retailer carsite.co.uk revealed the Mazda’s top placing – from total used car sales of 68 million motors since 2000! The survey asked for feedback on: •    Reliability •    Performance •    Running costs •    Depreciation •   [...]

BMW is the UK’s most clamoured-for used car, says online used car retailer autoquake.com. Such popularity, coupled with heady demand for used car stock, has pushed BMW to the top of autoquake.com’s popularity listings. The company has a special section on its website, which allows buyers to show an interest in cars that have already [...]

MAZDA’S 2009 move to give car dealers access to a team of finance whizz-kids is paying dividends. The firm says that the Mazda Europe initiative has already aided a business where ‘cash is king’. ‘We believe the automotive industry has not focused enough on helping dealers with cash-flow and balance-sheet management,’ said Philip Waring, Mazda’s [...]

THIS Weekend, I took part in the London Mazda Triathlon – the same event that one Jenson Button competed in. Our Jense rocked it, of course: 2 hours 5 minutes was pretty staggering, and a full 10 minutes faster than even he predicted. Lewis, you had a lucky escape there. But it wasn’t only other [...]

MAZDA’S quick reactions to the recession have helped its franchised dealers drive up profits by 60%. The 2009 results also show that most dealers are in profit for the year to day, and are improving over 2008, too – despite the challenges of a market down over 25 percent. Mazda car dealers themselves, in comparison, [...]

MAZDA has called in a crack team of banking experts to help improve financial returns for car dealers. The Japanese firm has appointed a 10-strong team of professional financiers, and offered their services to all its car dealers. This is correcting a major failing of the industry thus far, sais Mazda COO Philip Waring. ‘Cash [...]

SEVEN-site south-east car franchise AutoPlanet and Waters Retail has been sold, in a big buyout. A company owned by Darren Payne and John Hannah has paid an undisclosed sum for the big car dealer operation. It boasts a turnover not far off £100m a year, and holds franchises for Peugeot, Renault and Mazda. Expert advisers [...]

MAZDA has upped its scrappage deals for the second half of 2009 – with a real haeadline-grabber. The Japanese firm will add £5000 to the £1k Government scrappage allowance on the RX-8 R3, bringing the price down to just over £18k. What’s more, the maker has rolled out extra savings on other models in its [...]

MAZDA has returned to Portsmouth, with the opening by Perrys of a new six-car dealership. The site, on Walton Road, Farlington, will be familiar – it sits alongside existing Fiat and Peugeot car dealers. As Perrys is eager to point out, it fills an open point in the area, following the closure of Solent Motor [...]