IMPRESSIVE RECORD

IT was recently revealed that Barbados has beaten out countries such as Trinidad, Paraguay and Colombia to hold the title of most Mazda sales in the region.

This was announced by Hideto Asada, General Manager of Automotive and Transportation of the Equipment Division at Sumisho Machinery Trade Corporation, yesterday morning after the official opening of the New Mazda Showroom at McEnearney Quality Incorporated (MQI).

Asada told The Barbados Advocate that when they think of a selling spot for Mazda, Barbados is one of the popular options because even though it is a small country, the record number of sales is quite impressive. He mentioned that he was personally impressed with the progress of sales that Mazda has made of the past couple of years.

He explained that, geographically, this was a good location to have cars sent because of the incredible transport and airport systems. Along with it being relatively easy for Mazda representatives and other persons to get to Barbados, Asada said that Barbados was also an easy choice for Mazda, because of the good relationship that his company already has with MQI. He said that MQI has made a good name for itself in this country, and added that they have achieved a good result with Mazda sales.

Speaking on the test drive that they had on Tuesday at Bushy Park, Asada mentioned that it was the best place to test drive the new Mazda models, the CX-3 and CX-5.

He went on to say that he was very impressed with the event yesterday morning, and was encouraged by the amount of people that came together in the region to see and test drive the new cars, and mentioned that it was a good opportunity to get together with everyone and discuss the next strategy of Mazda.

Along with the people being very nice, he noted that these were all reasons that were considered when choosing Barbados to be one of the business hubs of Mazda.