TOKYO (Reuters) - Mazda Motor Corp <7261.T> is confident it will achieve its U.S. sales target of 290,000 vehicles in the business year to end-March 2009 despite a sharp downturn in that market, a top executive said on Tuesday. Daniel Morris, senior managing executive officer in charge of sales and marketing at Mazda, said that despite a double digit fall in the overall U.S. market so far this year, the automaker had achieved a slight increase thanks to robust demand for smaller cars such as the Mazda3 amid record high gasoline prices.(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim)
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