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FAW's 60% stake in FAW Mazda Motor Sales Co., Ltd. (FMSC) is now owned by Changan Mazda Automobile ... South Africa Mazda production ended in 2015-2016 fiscal year.
In 1988, Ford divested from South Africa and sold its 42 per cent stake in Samcor, although it would continue to sell Ford-branded automobile components for assembly and sale in the country. [6] In addition to Ford and Mazda products, Samcor also assembled Mitsubishi commercial vehicles, [7] with the Mitsubishi L300 minibus being badged as the ...
The following year, it was merged with Ford South Africa to create the South African Motor Corporation (Pty) Ltd., known as Samcor for short. [15] In 1988, Ford Canada divested its equity interest in Samcor and donated most of it to the Samcor Employees' Trust. [16] However, Samcor continued to build Ford as well as Mazda and Mitsubishi ...
In Japan, the B-series was referred to as the Mazda Proceed for much of its production, with several other names adopted by the model line. In Australia and New Zealand, the B-Series was named the Mazda Bravo and Mazda Bounty, respectively; South Africa used the Mazda Drifter name. Thailand used the Mazda Magnum, Thunder, and Fighter names.
Ford also lent Mazda some of its capacity when needed: the Mazda 121 sold in Europe and South Africa was, for a time, a variant of the Ford Fiesta built in plants in Europe and South Africa. Mazda also made an effort in the past to sell some of Ford's cars in Japan, mainly through its Autorama dealer group.
Basil Green Motors (VIN: BG) is a former car manufacturer and racing team which is located in Edenvale, Gauteng near Johannesburg, South Africa.The company has specialised in Ford vehicles, in which the manufacturer's models are recognised by the brand name Perana added to the model name.
The importer was Automotive Holdings, a subsidiary of Mazda Cars Ltd, the official Mazda UK importer. It was a rebadged version of the Mazda 323, imported from South Africa, where the 1985 model was still assembled by Samcor (now Ford Motor Company of South Africa), although it had ceased to be imported to the UK in 1989. [76]
In the early 1990s Mazda almost created a luxury marque, Amati, to challenge Acura, Infiniti, and Lexus in North America, but this never happened, leaving the near-luxury Millenia to the Mazda brand. Many Mazda vehicles have been rebadged and sold with the Ford brand during the alliance of both companies. Most are noted in the pages of ...