Best Selling Cars – Matt's blog

Toyota Aqua

* See the Top 75 best-selling Japanese models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin *

Thanks to the hard work of Austin Rutherford, I can now share with you a more detailed models ranking for Japan in February 2012, including break downs into different variants. And that little game has a surprise result: for only its 2nd full month of sales in the country, the Toyota Aqua is already the best-selling model (or more precisely body-style) in Japan in February with 21,951 sales.

The Toyota Prius Alpha SUV version sold 14,495 units last month, placing it at #7 while the Prius “standard” is at 21,380 sales, just under the Aqua. The other high seller in Japan, the Honda Fit, is now split between the “normal” Fit at 14,242 units and the Fit Shuttle #13 with 10,731 sales.

Kei cars are included in this exclusive ranking while we focus on Japanese models only. The Suzuki Wagon R is #3 with 16,861 sales, the Daihatsu Mira #4 at 16,757 units with the Mira Cocoa #21 and the Honda NBOX is #5 with 15,322 sales. Notice also the Mazda CX-5 at #75 with 693 sales.

The other Japan February 2012 articles are here:

Japan February 2012: Toyota Prius at highest ever, Aqua most successful launch in a decade

Japan Kei cars February 2012: Honda NBOX now on podium

Full February 2012 Top 75 Ranking Table below.

Japan February 2012 – Japanese models only:

Note: This ranking may be incomplete, for example some Mitsubishi models may sell enough to feature in the Top 75 but their sales are unknown.

Source: www.carview.co.jp, JAMA, many thanks to Austin Rutherford for sharing the data!