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Mazda North American Operations reported sales of 18,013 vehicles during October 2010. This is an increase of 19.5% over the same month last year. Year-to-date sales through October 2010 stand at 192,783, and are outpacing last year's sales at this time by 10.0%.

Here's the financial breakdown - Leading the increase for the month was Mazda's successful crossover SUVs. CX-7 reported sales of 2,483, up 46.8%, while CX-9 posted an increase of 56.7% with 2,497 vehicles. Year-to-date, CX-7 and CX-9 sales are up 47% and 43.2% respectively. The fun-to-drive…

Mazda wants to have the greenest engine on the market by 2013 - and if everything goes according to plans, they will. Mazda's plan is to install a 70 miles per gallon drivetrain into their upcoming MAZDA2. A Mazda spokesman clarified the 70 MPG result was from a Japanese test cycle. Fuel economy numbers will be lower in the United States, but still well above the competition's.

Mazda officially announced a "15 percent better gas mileage than the existing model."

The MAZDA2, or "Demio" in Japan, goes on sale in Japan in the first half of 2011, though the…