Mazda thriving in EU
October 19th, 2009 by Richard Aucock
MAZDA has given UK car dealers an insight into its European performance, by revealing broad sales figures.
It seems the UK wasn’t the only region setting sales records last month: Portugal, Turkey and Tunisia were also at it.
The Mazda2 and Mazda3 led this charge – which saw no less than 16 EU countries report Mazda3 sales had beaten their projections.
That’s led to the motor selling 8 percent above target.
This is seeing most European countries do really well with it. Portugal’s just scored a highest-ever monthly share, while Mazda sales were up 400 percent in Turkey.
Germany is up 26.8 percent year-on-year, while retail sales have risen 16 percent in BENELUX countries, plus 2 percent in Spain and Ireland.
But know which country is doing best of all? That’s right – the UK. No less than TWO records were set here in September; total volume of 11,400 is a retail record that’s up 20 percent on 2008. Market share, meanwhile, stands at 3.1 percent.
Difficult conditions? Not, it seems, if you’re Mazda.