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has already announced
plans to unveil a brand new crossover
at the
, but it turns out there’s another one in the pipeline set to satiate the appetites of a crossover-mad U.S. market. Speaking at the
,
North America CEO Masahiro Moro told reporters the brand has another model planned for production at the
$1.6 billion plant under construction
with joint-venture partner
in Huntsville, Ala.
It’ll be “a new
SUV which is exclusively designed for the North American market,”
Automotive News quoted Moro as saying
. While it’ll be a different product from the one debuting next month in Geneva, the two vehicles will share some architecture. The company is reportedly still finalizing the concept for it.
Currently, Mazda sells three crossovers in the U.S.: the subcompact
, the compact
and the larger
. Together, the three vehicles, which constitute half of the tiny automaker’s vehicle lineup, posted sales of 195,778 for 2018, up 15.8 percent from 2017. They accounted for nearly two-thirds of the brand’s total vehicle sales of 300,325.
Production is expected to start at the
in mid-2021, Moro said, and add capacity for 150,000 units of crossovers. The plant is expected to employ up to 4,000 workers with a total capacity of 300,000 vehicles a year.
plans to build the
there alongside Mazda’s
.
Mazda last week
shown above of its forthcoming new crossover headed for Geneva. It could be the next and slightly larger version of the
, which will use the Skyactiv Vehicle Architecture that also supports the new
.
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