Mazda News

Car sales are mushrooming like magic for Dartford-based Mazda UK as it celebrated its fifth anniversary at the weekend.

The ‘upgraded’ Mazda3 model range benefits from much more than a mere facelift and builds on the many virtues that have made the original Mazda3 the Mazda brand’s top-selling model globally, with more than 21,000 delivered since launch in the UK.

Mazda Motors UK is issuing a thrilling Zoom-Zoom Challenge to visitors at the British International Motor Show at ExCeL, London.

Mazda’s range of ‘Zoom-Zoom’ vehicles continue to impress automotive experts. Three Mazda models have been selected for critical acclaim in the 2006 Auto Express New Car Honours, announced in Auto Express magazine.

Mazda will use the 2006 British International Motor Show for its global reveal of the new Mazda MX-5, now equipped with a power retractable hard top roof – and the regional debut of the Mazda BT-50 one-ton pickup truck.

Responding to enthusiastic customer feedback, Mazda is introducing an even more ‘focused’ version of its highest performance, four-door, sports coupé. On sale in the UK from 1 July it will be called the ‘Mazda RX-8 PZ’.

January sales have proved outstanding for the Japanese manufacturer that brought us Zoom-Zoom with the iconic two-seater sports car Mazda MX-5 and the rotary-powered Mazda RX-8 sports coupé. Despite a car market that fell 13% year-on-year, Mazda has reached an all-time record market share in the UK at 2.7 per cent with sales of 4,400 units ranking as the 12thth best selling car company in the UK for the month.

Mazda is introducing a sporty range of three of the popular Sakata special edition models. The Sakata special edition was first introduced in 2004 and proved tremendously popular, this new special edition brings more value and more specification at an affordable price.

Mazda is introducing its first-ever special edition model of the Mazda RX-8 rotary powered four-door sports coupé. Called the ‘Mazda RX-8 Evolve’ the new model is named after the original concept car seen in Detroit in 2000 from which the Mazda RX-8 was developed.

MAZDA sells more sports cars in the UK than any other car maker, figures just released show.