AND BABY MAKES 5; Teeny Mazda minivan to join MPV in lineup.(News)

Byline: NATALIE NEFF The folks at Mazda have been busy. Under what it calls the Mazda Millennium Plan, the company says that between 2000 and 2004 it "rebalanced'' production capacity, reorganized its subsidiaries, slashed costs by 25 percent and overhauled 70 percent of its product line.

Net result: surging interest in the brand across Asia and Europe and record profits for fiscal 2004, with Mazda raking in 78 billion yen ($740 million) compared to the 14.9 billion yen ($143 million) it lost in 2000. Little of that effort has paid off in the United States, however. Sales ...

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