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Originally Posted by NC LE
I would not say that at all, Mazda North America reported a 72.4% increase in sales of the MX-5 from December 2005 to December 2006. Actually I think Mazda is doing somthing right.
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Well, then the fire at the plant really hurt 2005 volume or something. Or maybe that ship of Mazda products that nearly sunk...
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Originally Posted by drex, Solsticeforum '2006 is over and the winner is...
The Solstice @ 19,710
The MX-5 came in a couple thousand less @ 16,897
The Sky end up at more than half of sales of the MX-5 @ 8,671. If they would have pushed out another 15 cars in December, the Sky would have beat the December's sales of the MX-5.
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Grabbed Mazda's break down off of Page Ranking Newswire, no direct link to it. |
And before anyone starts trying to count worldwide volume, I'll point out that 1) GM (actually any of the domestics) is prevented from selling in an open and fair Japanese market, while the MX-5 is allowed to sell in an open and fair North American market. Serious disadvantage to kappas (or advantage to MX-5).
2) There is no RHD (maybe related?) kappa. Why go to all the engineering trouble if the country you might sell them in slaps crazy tarriffs on your product?
I'm pretty sure that the Solstice/SKY volume doesn't include more than a few rental cars. I'd be interested to see how many rental cars make up the US Domestic volume for MX-5s. I bet the answer is surprising...