DETROIT - Mazda Motor Co. has decided to stop building the mid-sized sedan Mazda6 in the United States, questions about the future of a US factory, which he runs together with Ford Motor Co.
The Japanese automaker said Monday that also the 6 in the factory in flat create it rock, Michigan, near the city of Detroit, to the end of the life cycle of the current model. But the next version of the 6 Mazda's Hofu plant in Japan is built the company said.
A company spokesman would not say, when U.S. production would cease, nor would he say whether Mazda from the joint venture, name would bring auto Alliance International.
The company says that it change the decision, taken in particular due to the demand in North America. Mazda's when people are more crossovers and small cars instead of mid-sized sedans, buy spokesman Jeremy Barnes said. Crossovers are SUV-like vehicles, which are based on car basis.
Sale of the Mazda6 were late, slow 13,604 9 percent until May.
The factory, flat rock, which employs 1,700 people, about makes also the slow selling Ford Mustang, which has seen a decline of 3 per cent to may.
Mazda future uses for the factory studied with Ford, and both companies are determined, which Mazda said partnership continue.
Barnes could not say whether Mazda will build another model in the factory in the future.
"Everything is open for discussion at this time," he said.
The current version of the Mazda6 debuted in 2007. The company updated its models usually every four or five years, which means that the production of the new version as early end of this year could adjust like that.
Ford said in a statement that the plant is essential for its US factory system, and it works with Mazda and the United Auto Workers Union options a study for the Mazda6 production ends.
The works for Mazda factory started in 1987 and was a joint venture with Ford in the summer of 1982. It has built 1.7 million Mazda in its lifetime.
Mazda and Ford have partner since 1979 when Ford bought 25 percent of the struggling Japanese automaker. Ford increases its stake to 33.4 per cent in 1996. But Ford began cutting relations in 2008, when he tried, the brands and reduce costs. Last year, Ford lowered his property by 3.5 percent.
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