Mazda Motor Corporation has revealed that the new facility that is building in Salamanca, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, is expected to be set into motion in the first quarter of 2014. The new plant, which requires an investment of USD 650 million (EUR 500.35 million), will initially have capacity to produce 140,000 units, but this figure will be increased to up to 230,000 units by 2015. Mazda will produce its Mazda2 and Mazda3 models at the new plant.

The company targets sales of 32,000 units in Mexico in 2013, whereas it hopes to reach 50,000 units per year in the future, bolstered by the setting into motion of its new plant.