Mazda has suspended deliveries of Mazda3 model to Russia

Mazda has suspended deliveries of Mazda3 to the Russian market due to a sharp increase in scrappage fee for passenger cars from January 1st, 2020. As reported in the Russian office of Mazda, the date of the resumption of deliveries of Mazda3 is not known yet. We add that vehicle approval for that model is valid until 2022, but without assembly at the plant in Vladivostok, it makes no sense to talk about the resumption of sales.

As it turned out, deliveries of Mazda3 to our country were stopped at the end of last year, before the scrappage fee was indexed in January 2020. And this year, dealers were selling out a warehouse of 2019 samples. Let us remind you that in July of the last year the sales of the fourth generation Mazda3 in a hatchback body started in the Russian market, and in October dealers also got a sedan. According to the AEB, 385 Mazda3 cars were sold in Russia for eight months of 2020, while none in September. Thus, it can be assumed that the stock of these cars at Russian dealers have already come to an end.