Hiroshima Pref to buy 200 Mazda cars with extra budget

Thursday 15th January, 04:34 AM JST

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LikingJapan at 09:42 AM JST - 15th January

How many cars is the government replacing? The article says that the current cars are old which means that they require some pricey maintenance. Looking good by just following standard proceedure perhaps. (Good marketing by the prefecture) They tendered a bid which Mazda won by selling the cars at near cost (likely) which helps them offload some of their stockpile.

That Kyodo Reporter is welcome to can join me as I go and buy 2 hot water pots to my 20 year old ones that are leaky and inefficient.
Sarge at 09:55 AM JST - 15th January

The Hiroshima prefectural government is buying the cars "to assist the automaker", not because they need the cars. Hey, Hiroshima prefectural government - my business has been bad this past year - assist me by buying my products which you don't need! Lol!

"extra budget"

I wish I had an extra budget...
LikingJapan at 12:24 PM JST - 15th January

I don't need the hot pots as my current ones work perfectly well. It is however about time to update them.
unscrejects at 04:04 PM JST - 15th January

Sarge: The prefecture has been avoiding Mazda for years. Apparantly somebody's been asking for a little something for himself from Mazda - including jobs for family and friends, cash etc. Mazda have refused and they've sold very little to the prefecture. On some of the prefecture's trucks bought from Mazda you can find traces of manmoth hairs stuck in dents in the fenders from old collisions.
presto345 at 05:51 PM JST - 15th January

On some of the prefecture's trucks bought from Mazda you can find traces of manmoth hairs stuck in dents in the fenders from old collisions.

Manmoth? As in Elizabeth Bishop's Man-moth? Or . . .? Anyway, till now the prefecture did not need to support Mazda as the maker enjoyed very good sales. Changing buying habits can rescue a company or even the economy of an entire nation. Korean consumers renewed lavish spending got the country out of an economic crisis some years ago. The present one, created by the US os A, will be just a bit harder to overcome. Buying a couple of hundred or thousand cars from a certain maker won't do it, but may make a signal.
usaexpat at 12:11 AM JST - 16th January

Buying local is a good thing, this should have been standard buying procedure all along.
unscrejects at 03:02 PM JST - 16th January

presto: "as the maker enjoyed good sales" Sorry? Good sales of what sir? Are we talking of the same Mazda? They begged the prefecture every year to buy. The prefecture pulled the same stunt and nothing moved off the lot. In the prefecture Mazda is not the top selling brand - not even top three! "but may make a signal" - sure, a signal of questions to ask. It's no secret that Mazda and the prefecture have had a huge love hate relationship for years now - take the baseball team - the prefecture gets hit for cash every season. That doesn't go down too well you know. And on the Korea side I beg to differ. Unless you mention that the Korean rise was a major fraud - Daewoo, Hyundai, Kia... the execs are sitting in jail for the scams. Daewoo, KIA, the truck maker... all went bust and were bailed out through US cash infusions. Dude I remember trying to collect tens of millions of dollars from KIA - they couldn't pay for six years to FORD and Mazda.