Mazda announced that production capacity at its new assembly plant in Salamanca, Mexico, which is currently under construction, will be increased in the fiscal year ending March 2016.
Scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2014, the facility will start with an annual production of 140,000 units. Capacity will then jump to 230,000 units two years later.
This increase will not only accommodate the growing worldwide demand for Mazda's SKYACTIV vehicles, but also the additional annual production of about 50,000 Toyota-branded vehicles (beginning in the summer of 2015).
The Salamanca plant will build Mazda2 and Mazda3 models to be sold throughout North, Central and South America.
Scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2014, the facility will start with an annual production of 140,000 units. Capacity will then jump to 230,000 units two years later.
This increase will not only accommodate the growing worldwide demand for Mazda's SKYACTIV vehicles, but also the additional annual production of about 50,000 Toyota-branded vehicles (beginning in the summer of 2015).
The Salamanca plant will build Mazda2 and Mazda3 models to be sold throughout North, Central and South America.