New Mazda6 Atenza can save FAW Mazda from sales slump? - Gasgoo automotive news
com (Shanghai August 10) - FAW Mazda has launched six new versions of Atenza a few days ago, with 2. 0-liter and 2. 5-liter discharge, whose selling price range is 179,800 to 239,800 CNY. The joint-venture sold 50,070 units in the first seven months of the year, a sharp drop of 20. 8% compared with 63,219 units in the same period of last year. But, the overall sales of Mazda in China have increased 15. 4% to a record volume of 132,499 units from a year earlier. The sales slump of Mazda 6 models contributed a lot to the joint-venture’s bad performance in the first seven months of the year. The old Atenza sold 19,000 units in the first half of the year in China, jumping 202. 58% from a year earlier. Thus the new Atenza is launched to raise the sales of the joint-venture later this year. According to a statement of FAW Mazda, the company will expand sales scale and launching more new car to raise its sales volume later this year. With all these new configuration of high-tech, will the new Atenza save FAW Mazda from sales slump. Source: autonews.gasgoo.com
