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Mazda3 temporarily out of stock due to sales network reshuffling
Shanghai, December 5, (Gasgoo.com) – Mazda3, Mazda's second best-selling model of its lineup in China is almost out of stock due to a recent restructuring of its sales networks, Xinhua News Agency reported today.
"This is the last Mazda3 2.0-litre model in our store and we have no more than 10 Mazda3 1.6-litre ones. We won't replenish our stock from next week," a salesman at an FAW-Mazda dealership in Changchun, northeast of China told the Xinhua News Agency.
Most of FAW-Mazda dealerships have already halted replenishing new Mazda3 inventory although they're allowed to sell the inventory after the first day of January next year.
Mazda will have two separate sales networks on January 1 of 2008 when Changan Ford Mazda, the producer of Mazda 3, will take back the sales of Mazda 3 from FAW-Mazda, whose sales networks have been selling both Mazda 3 and Mazda 6 over the past year.
Originally Mazda had only one sales network run by FAW-Mazda to manage the sales of Mazda 6 and Mazda 3. However, Mazda's another Chinese partner, Changan Ford Mazda has been in fights with FAW-Mazda over the sales of Mazda 3 produced by Changan Ford Mazda.
The fight has led to the suspension of the production of Mazda 3, and seriously damaged Mazda's performance in Chinese market.
Analysts say that Mazda3 could miss the sales goal this year, but next year will witness a surge as Changan-Ford-Mazda's set up 50 dealerships.
During the first ten months this year, around 29,000 units of Mazda3 were sold in the Chinese market, which amounts to 67 percent of the full-year sales target of 43,000 units.
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