In February of last year Mazda CEO Takashi Yamanouchi, federal officials, state legislators, and mayors celebrated the opening of Mazda’s new assembly plant in Salamanca, Guanajuato. By the end of the year Mazda announced that it had produced its 100,000th vehicle at the new plant, a Mazda2 destined for the European market.
The plant also builds the Mazda3 compact hatchback and sedan.
The president of Mazda de México Vehicle Operation (MMVO) told reporters “The production of one hundred thousand vehicles at MMVO is extremely significant, and we could not have done it without the support of our customers, our suppliers, and our employees, as well as that of the federal and local governments.”
The new Salamanca plant has an estimated annual production capacity of 140,000 units, but Mazda has plans to increase the plant’s output to 230,000 units by March 2016. The increase is in part due to the 50,000 Toyota-branded subcompact vehicles based on the Mazda2 that the automaker will build in México.
The Toyota vehicles will be built under contract with Toyota, beginning in the summer of 2015.
(from Car Scoops)
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