Thursday, November 29, 2007

No Go for New Mazdaspeed Atenza (Mazda6 MPS)?



Mazda6 program manager Ryuichi Umeshita, told the guys at GoAuto during the presentation of the mid-size sedan in France, “We will see if there is a big enough requirement in the market. We will seriously consider this, but honestly speaking we don’t see that. As the program manager of Mazda6, we don’t want to be overtaken by Mazda3. We need to have some differentiation. The Mazda3 MPS is a great vehicle, but the Mazda6 needs to be different.”

In other words, Mazda will either spend serious cash and time to develop a truly sport version of the “6”, or else, forget about the Mazdaspeed6 -at least for the current generation model.

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