Wait, is the Mazda EZ-6 coming to Europe?!

Yup, you read that right. The superb-looking Mazda EZ-6 - revealed in Beijing at the Auto China show back in April - is apparently destined for Europe. Please let it be so.

Thought to be capable of 373 miles of range on a full tank of electrons, we were initially told that the EZ-6 would only be sold in China. Given that the Mazda 6 was killed off last year, that made us Very Sad.

But now we are Most Pleased, because it seems as though Mazda has changed its mind. No official word yet on whether the UK will be one of the beneficiaries of its shift to Europe, although the Japanese company is thought to be weighing up its options.

You’d have to think our chances are decent. You see, while the EZ-6’s design is the work of Mazda, the underpinnings were done by Chinese firm Changan Automobile, which will build the car in China.

The EU ramped up its tariffs on Chinese cars last month as part of an ongoing trade war, but the UK currently has no plans to do the same… presumably, that makes Blighty - a nation stuffed full of bulky, electric SUVs - a more viable market for a sleek, electric saloons like this one?

And in any case, it surely can’t be any worse than the MX-30; Mazda’s only electric car thus far and (would you have guessed?) not one we’re especially fond of.

Last week a quarterly fiscal report confirmed that Mazda (okay, Changan) has already assembled the first pre-prod EZ-6s, with full production set to get underway next month ahead of roll-out in China in October.

After that? Maybe, just maybe, here…