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The Mazda3 is based on the Ford global C1 platform, shared with the latest European Ford Focus and Volvo S40.Previewed by the MX-Sportif concept car, the first-generation Mazda3 was available in two body styles, a four-door fastback sedan/saloon, marketed as a "4-door coupé style" in Europe, and a five-door hatchback, branded the Sport version in Canada, Japan, and the United States.
1983–2014: 1982 : Mazda purchased Compañía Colombiana Automotriz from Fiat: Automobile assembly: South America 1983 : Mazda production commenced 2014 : Mazda production ceased Michigan Plant Mazda Motor Manufacturing USA (MMM USA) AutoAlliance International (AAI) 1YV (Mazda), 1ZV (Ford), 1ZW (Mercury) 5: Flat Rock, Michigan, United States
In the early 1990s Mazda almost created a luxury marque, Amati, to challenge Acura, Infiniti, and Lexus in North America, but this never happened, leaving the near-luxury Millenia to the Mazda brand. Many Mazda vehicles have been rebadged and sold with the Ford brand during the alliance of both companies.
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Mazda's market share in the U.S. fell to a 10-year low of 1.7 percent in 2016. [51] Mazda's brand loyalty was 39 percent in 2016, below the industry average of 53 percent. [52] On October 24, 2022, Mazda decided to get rid of assets in Russia, with the company transferring a stake in a joint venture in Vladivostok to Sollers JSC for 1 euro. [53]
The RX-7 and 626 buoyed Mazda's American fortunes enough for it to expand. Mazda built an American plant (now Flat Rock Assembly Plant) to build the 626, bringing the company to Ford's attention. The two joined on the 626's 2-door offshoots, the MX-6 and Ford Probe. Mazda finished the 1980s the same way as the 1970s, with an image-building ...