Mazda

Mazda sales and market share in Europe have been falling steadily from 2009 to 2012, but have taken a turn in 2013 as the brand’s volume increased 88% from 2012 to 2016 to almost return to its 2008 level.

The introduction of the CX-5 midsized crossover in the beginning of 2012 had been unable to offset sales declines of the other models that year, but quickly became the brand’s best seller in the following years. The new generation Mazda6, introduced in the last quarter of 2012 and the CX-5 gaining steam pushed the brand forward in 2013.

This momentum continued in 2014, as the new generation Mazda3 was introduced in the second half of 2013, and doubled in sales the next year.

Sales of the MX-5 roadster, Mazda5 midsized MPV and CX-7 crossover have declined slowly as the models aged, but the MX-5 and the Mazda2 subcompact hatchback, the brand’s best selling car from 2009 to 2012, were both replaced in 2015. The former returned to its 2008 level in 2016, but the Mazda2 suffers from increased competition in the subcompact car segment, and from internal cannibalization by the newly launched CX-3 small crossover, also in 2015. The CX-3 quickly closed in on the CX-5 as Mazda’s best selling model.

Unlike most automakers, Mazda has decided not to join the downsizing and electrification trends, and is relying on a further improvement of fuel economy by enhancing the efficiency of the engine and other relatively low-tech solutions under its SkyActiv label. For example, the Mazda3 is the only compact segment car with an “old fashioned” normally aspirated 2.0 liter engine instead of a frugal but vulnerable smaller turbocharged unit. Yet the difference in fuel consumption between the Ford Focus 1.0 3-cylinder turbo “engine of the year” with 125 horsepower and the Mazda3 2.0  4-cylinder non-turbo is only 0,1 liter per 100 km, or 4 grams of CO2 per km.

With ever more reports on the higher maintenance costs and lower lifespan of those downsized turbo-engines surfacing, let’s hope other manufacturers realize that Mazda actually has a point here, and the recent sales success and positive press-reception may back it up.

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