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Mazda launches small SUV CX-3, paris on diesel cars only for Japan.
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TOKYO - compact crossover Mazda CX-3 is on sale in Japan today with the car manufacturer offering a 1-liter diesel engine 5 as the only powertrain of the plate.
Who won t happen in the U S said the chief engineer Michio Tomiyama In America, it will only gasoline.
Mazda expects to sell 150,000 CX3 year, and Tomiyama said the United States would be one of its most important markets when the vehicle hit showrooms U S in mid-2015.
In Japan, Mazda plans to sell 36,000 XC-3 years, starting with a sticker of 2,376 million yen and 19970 yen capped at 3 024 000 000 25410 The car will then go on sale in Australia in late March, then europe strikes before arriving in the US, CEO Masamichi Kogai said.
Kogai said Mazda has opted for a diesel package only in Japan because other diesel offerings of the brand are hot sellers.
About 75 percent of the CX-5 buyers in Japan opt for diesel, while Mazda has represented more than half of the vehicles clean diesel 79.222 sold in Japan last year.
In U S-CX 3 will receive a four-cylinder engine, the gasoline SKYACTIV 2 0 liters and an automatic transmission with six speeds.
Mazda has delayed the introduction of its diesel technology to the US in part because of fuel prices, but also because he had trouble adjusting the engine to meet US emissions more stringent standards while keeping its sporty feel and torque.
Tomiyama said the company should make a breakthrough soon in the balance of power and emissions, but declined to give details.
Mazda is counting on the new offer to make inroads in emerging markets and help expand the capacity of the company's assembly plant in Hiroshima, the CX-3's single manufacturing site.
This plant has an annual capacity of 515,000 vehicles and also makes the CX-5 and CX-9 crossovers, and the minivan MPV and sports car MX-5 Miata Mazda moved the compact generation Mazda2 at its plant in Hofu, d Hiroshima, to make room for the CX-3.
The compact crossover SUV segment was the fourth largest in the US last year with 2 02 million in sales, just behind the full-size pickup segment # 3 with 2 07 million in sales, according to Kelley Blue Book .
The compact crossover SUV segment has been the hottest selling segment large volume of U in 2014, with soaring 15 percent sales gain exceeding 5 9 percent of the industry.
Typing compact crossovers can raise brand Mazda average transaction price transaction price rose 6 percent to 1 26110 in December 2014, compared with 24,614 a year earlier.
But as a segment, small crossovers commanded an average transaction price of 27,231 in December, an increase of 2 7 percent to 26,513 a year earlier, according to Kelley Blue Book.
The field is crowded with the two largest nameplates as the leader of the Honda CR-V segment and the No. 2 Ford Escape and smaller institutions such as Nissan Juke and Chevrolet Trax.
Smaller deals trail in volume, but the growing demand attracts more players such as Honda Motor Co, which brings its Fit crossing HR-V based hatchback stateside this year.
In the future, sales of the SUV segment smaller subcompact should climb 28 arrow percent to 822,214 this year from 644,481 in 2014, according to forecasts by IHS Automotive.
The growth of commercial vehicles larger compact sport, however, should inches along from 2 to 89 million in 2015 to 2 86 million last year.
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