{"id":65,"date":"2009-02-04T02:24:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T02:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-06-20T02:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:08:17","slug":"mazda-3-the-top-selling-car-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/mazda-3-the-top-selling-car-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazda 3 the top selling car in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small car segment continues to make inroads into traditional large car territory as the Japanese built Mazda 3 knocks the Holden Commodore off the top spot for sales in the moth of January.<\/p>\n<p>This not only reflects a general shift towards smaller and more fuel efficient cars but also demonstrates how when fleet buyers are taken out of the market (many businesses close for a time over the Xmas period), overall sales figures can move around quite significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst this was good news for Mazda (in fact this is the first time that a wholly imported brand (Mazda) has taken the top spot from manufacturers that still build in Australia) the overall market suffered a 18% drop in sales compared to January 2008.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s tough times ahead for the Australia auto industry &#8211; especially the local manufacturers.\u00a0 January\u00a0was also significant as it was the first time Mazda sold more units than Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope buyers can see through the doom &amp; gloom, recognise some of the fantastic value available in Australia &amp; give themselves a treat &#8211; especially if it&#8217;s made locally! <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/credit-card-single-tinkoff-platinum.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/credit-card-single-tinkoff-platinum.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small car segment continues to make inroads into traditional large car territory as the Japanese built Mazda 3 knocks the Holden Commodore off the top spot for sales in the moth of January. This not only reflects a general shift towards smaller and more fuel efficient cars but also demonstrates how when fleet buyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12650,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}