Does a diesel Mazda Premacy even exist? What I found after checking every NZ listing

I spent more than an hour checking all the listings for the Mazda Premacy. I found that every single listing was petrol. So I started digging and found that it is unavailable as a diesel variant in New Zealand. Mazda did produce a diesel Premacy; the 2.0 DITD engine was available in European markets, particularly the UK, through the early 2000s. But here’s the thing, NZ’s Japanese import pipeline dried that option up completely. Japan never sold the diesel Premacy domestically, and since most of our used car supply flows through Japanese auctions, what Japan didn’t sell, we don’t get.
So if you’re hunting a diesel Premacy in New Zealand, you’re essentially looking at a private import from the UK or Europe, which is possible, but you’re adding compliance costs, shipping, and uncertainty on top of the purchase price. For most buyers, that maths doesn’t work. The petrol 2.0 or 2.3 is genuinely your only option here. Once I accepted that, the search got a lot easier. Here are the prices for the Mazda Premacy for all years.