Mazda sales, market share increase in February

By Matt Brogan | March 05th, 2010

Mazda has enjoyed a strong sales month in February with its popular Mazda3 and mid-sized CX-7 SUV topping the brand’s stat sheet.

According to February VFACTS figures, Mazda3 found 6,613 new homes (year-to-date) after also topping the small car charts in January, while the CX-7 sold 944 units for the month of February.

The larger CX-9 also saw a healthy start to the year with Mazda delivering 785 units since January 1.

The news also signals an increase in market share for Mazda, who as Australia’s top-selling full-line vehicle importer, now holds a year-to-date figure of 8.7 per cent.

“We’re just absolutely delighted to see that, for the second month in a row, Mazda3 has outperformed every other small car in the country,” said Mazda Australia Managing Director, Mr Doug Dickson.

“We knew we were on a good wicket when the New Generation Mazda3 was introduced last year, but I must say it’s great to see that Australian consumers recognise Mazda3 for the outstanding value for money and stylish package it is.

“Mazda3′s ongoing sales success coupled with a strong month for Mazda CX-7 has really kick-started what I hope will be another fantastic year for Mazda.”

XYZ

The mid term update of the Mazda 6 later this year, might boost sales figures. Mazda should include sat. navi. (GPS) as standard in the top end model, to be consistent with the Mazda 3 and to make it more competitive.

Classic

Have you seen pics of the mid-year update? If so, can you let us know?

Thanks

Classic

^ let us know whwere, sorry.

vid_ghost

Yeah the new mazda 6 does look very nice indeed! well done mazda now just hurry up and bring those nice new direct injected sky blue diesel and petrol engines into your line up of cars along with the new 6 speed auto’s to help fuel saving and give us more power!
m3

and i’m one of those who just bought a mazda 3 (mine’s a neo) so far so good, i use it everyday to work (60kms return, 50/50 freeway/city driving) and managed to get a 7.0 l/100 average fuel consumption which is amazing BUT after I had the tyres/wheels changed to 17inch (from 195/65/15 steel to 225/45/17 alloys) it can only manage to go down to 7.7 l/100 which is my average at the moment yet my driving style is still the same, anyway it’s still below the official figure so i’m still happy (a little bit noisier now though, must be the tyres again)