It had advanced been accepted that our neighbors to the arctic would be accepted Mazda’s atomic zoom machine, the Mazda 2. But Jim O’Sullivan, admiral and CEO of Mazda Arctic American Operations, accepted at a contempo banker appointment that the little B-segment bear will in actuality be awash in Canada and the U.S., with American sales alpha in backward 2010. The aggregation has additionally appear a brain-teaser angel advanced of the Los Angeles auto show.
“You’ve asked us for it for a while now, and we’ve been belief the bazaar to accomplish abiding we can accomplish a business case for it beyond Arctic America,” O’Sullivan told the accumulated dealers. Don’t be bamboozled into cerebration that it was aloof banker requests that brought about the change of plans. With Ford putting its final touches on the U.S.-spec Fiesta (which is itself based on the Mazda 2 that’s already awash elsewhere) and Chevrolet basic the Spark, Mazda isn’t dark to the added drive of the B-segment actuality in the States.
O’Sullivan went on to affiance that the new Mazda 2 will “be accurate to aggregate that makes our cars angle afar from the competition: it will be stylish, fun to drive, and a heck of a value. In short, it will be Zoom-Zoom.” If the 2 does absolutely bear the sportiness begin in its beyond siblings—and our drive of the European archetypal indicates that it does—we’ll be blessed to acceptable the archetypal to the Arctic American market. Look for abounding capacity back the car bows at the L.A. appearance abutting month.
