Reducing Activities: company scaling back some business operations while continuing others
Stay Scaling BackReducing Activities: company scaling back some business operations while continuing others
Stay Scaling BackJoint venture with the Russian Sollers group, where the Mazda CX-9, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-30 and the Mazda 6 sedan are manufactured. Mazda sold the plant in Vladivostok but MAZDA MOTOR RUS LLC is still not sold. Mazda retained the right to buy back its stake in the joint venture within three years. Mazda is returning to the Russian market, including guarantees. Cars available for purchase also appeared on the mazda.ru website.
According to Nikkei, the company is suspending the export of spare parts to the plant in Vladivostok. The available stock of components will be enough for production and sale for several months. Mazda in talks to end Russia production, following Toyota exit. Mazda Could Soon Sell Its Stake In Russian Joint Venture. In a results statement, Mazda said the deal would be worth one euro, bring it the right to buy the asset back for the same amount within three years. New Mazda cars with a warranty have started to be sold in Russia again. Several models have started to be delivered to the country at once. However, this is not about the official return of the Japanese brand to the Russian market, reports the editor-in-chief of the Russian magazine "Za Rulem" Maxim Kadakov. Kadakov explained that Mazda Motor Corporation does not officially supply its cars to the Russian Federation. According to him, the Japanese brand is not going to return to Russia, and has not given permission to use its logo in the country. All Mazda cars that are currently being brought new to Russia are manufactured in China. They are mainly produced by Changan Mazda Automobile Co. This means that new Mazda cars are entering Russia through "gray imports". Kadakov noted that deliveries are handled by Mazda Motor Rus LLC, which brings cars to the Russian Federation, also carries out customs clearance and provides a three-year warranty on its own behalf. Such a scheme is carried out without the participation of the automaker.
May 27, 2025 | Website in Russia |
May 23, 2025 | Mazda resumed sales of cars in Russia with official warranty: models, warranty period |
September 11, 2023 | Instead of Mazda, Sollers will produce analogues of Chinese pickup trucks at the Vladivostok plant |
December 15, 2022 | Mazda sold the plant in Vladivostok |
December 07, 2022 | Letter sent by B4Ukraine to the company (no response provided) |
November 10, 2022 | Russian carmaker Sollers to buy out Mazda's stake in Vladivostok plant |
October 26, 2022 | Sollers will replace Mazda with another manufacturer at a plant in Vladivostok |
September 27, 2022 | Mazda Could Soon Sell Its Stake In Russian Joint Venture |
September 25, 2022 | Mazda Sees No Return Path to Production in Russia, Yomiuri Says |
September 25, 2022 | Mazda in talks to end Russia production, following Toyota exit |
April 02, 2022 | Honda and Mazda to halt exports to Russia |
March 02, 2022 | Honda and Mazda stopped deliveries of cars and components to Russia |