[Image Source: Canadian Driver]

Perhaps all those catchy Zoom! Zoom! television commercials finally caught on (or paid off), for in F.Y. 2006, Mazda did a gangbusters business.

The Japanese subsidiary of the ford motor company built and sold more than 1.3 million cars last year. That's a 2% increase from 2005.

In the U.S., sales grew by 7% over the previous year to a total of 280,589 units. Canadians liked Mazdas even more than their southern neighbors and displayed this nameplate zest by buying up much more than their share - 83,624 best-ever-sales last year.

And across the Pond in Europe, Mazda did the best it did on the Continent in 15 years. Sales totalled 301,167 cars sold - with individual markets Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the UK pulling the best numbers ever.

All in all, 2006 was a very good year for Mazda.

[Source: Ford]