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Japan 1999: Toyota Corolla and Vitz in the lead

January 14th, 2000 Leave a comment Go to comments

Toyota Vitz

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No surprise in pole position: the Toyota Corolla is still the favourite passenger car in Japan, but with 160,677 sales it is down 18% on 1998 and just 4,000 units above the all-new Toyota Vitz, launched in January and finishing its first year in market with an outstanding 156,646 sales. The Vitz was even #1 in April with 12,389 units vs. 11,640 for the Corolla and in July with 18,046 vs. 16,102…

Subaru Legacy

In spite of a 3% decline over 1998, the Honda StepWGN is up 3 spots to #3 with 90,495 sales, ahead of the Toyota Crown, up 4 ranks and 18% to 87,253 units and the Mazda Demio down 2 spots and 17% to 84,840 sales. The Nissan Cube is down 4 ranks to #6, the Toyota Mark II is stable at #7 while the Subaru Legacy is up 5 spots to #8 with 70,181 units, the last time a Subaru finishes the year within the Japanese Top 10.

You can check out each and every monthly Top 30 for 1999 here.

Previous year: Japan 1998: Toyota Corolla, Nissan Cube and Suzuki Wagon R favourites

Next year: Japan 2000: Toyota Vitz threatens Toyota Corolla for pole position

Full Year 1999 Top 30 Ranking Table below.

Japan 1999:

Pos Model 1999 /98 1998 Pos
1 Toyota Corolla 160,677 -18% 196,498 1
2 Toyota Vitz 156,646 new 0  -
3 Honda StepWGN 90,495 -3% 93,280 6
4 Toyota Crown 87,253 18% 73,948 8
5 Mazda Demio 84,840 -17% 102,377 3
6 Nissan Cube 81,796 -24% 107,857 2
7 Toyota Mark II 73,768 -19% 90,491 7
8 Subaru Legacy 70,181 18% 59,686 12
9 Nissan March 60,430 -36% 94,712 4
10 Toyota Town Ace Noah 55,916 11% 50,194 17
11 Nissan Sunny 54,843 -18% 66,894 10
12 Nissan Elgrand 51,521 -8% 55,775 16
13 Honda Odyssey 48,211 -18% 58,667 14
14 Toyota Ipsum 47,653 -20% 59,399 13
15 Mitsubishi Grandis 47,307 -33% 70,644 9
16 Toyota FunCargo 46,575 new 0  -
17 Mitsubishi Pajero IO 45,219 42% 31,844 n/a
18 Nissan Serena 45,177 126% 19,999 n/a
19 Toyota Estima 45,153 -28% 62,688 11
20 Toyota Vista 41,170 23% 33,499 n/a
21 Mazda Familia 39,534 5% 37,505 29
22 Honda Accord 39,026 -31% 56,500 15
23 Toyota Raum 38,736 -21% 49,301 20
24 Toyota Light Ace Noah 37,727 -4% 39,471 26
25 Toyota Corona 36,349 -19% 44,585 22
26 Toyota Gaia 36,083 25% 28,774 n/a
27 Toyota Carina 35,853 -13% 41,091 24
28 Honda Logo 34,588 -22% 44,140 23
29 Toyota Harrier 34,087 -32% 49,954 19
30 Toyota Altezza 34,020 153% 13,468 n/a

Source: JADA, many thanks to Joe for the tip!

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