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Japan by version October 2012: Prius Alpha at 43% of Prius sales

December 7th, 2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

Toyota Prius Alpha. Picture by autoc-one.jp, all rights reserved.

* See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin *

As usual, after exploring the Passenger car Top 30 and the Kei car Top 20 in Japan, we have a more detailed look at overall October sales split by version and with Light Commercial Vehicles added. Note these are October figures still and not yet November which will be published in the next few days. Given it is now #1 in the overall ranking, it is easy for the Toyota Aqua to win at the version game for the 9th month in a row (no interruption since last February!) thanks to 24,192 sales this month. This is nearly 2.5 times what the Toyota Prius hatchback sold (10,305 units) with the Prius Alpha catching up at #8 in October with 7,811 sales.

The Honda NBOX is back to #2 at 18,203 units above the Suzuki Wagon R at 15,946 and the Daihatsu Tanto at 12,101. Further down, notice the Nissan Note down 2 spots to #6, the Toyota Spade up 8 to #11, the Suzuki Every up 2 to #12, the Suzuki Carry up 10 to #15, the Subaru XV making its first appearance in the ranking as split figures from the Impreza are now available (983 for the XV, 4,217 for the Impreza) as does the Mazda Flair at #68 and the Honda N-One outside the Top 100.

Passenger cars post: Japan October 2012: Toyota Aqua takes the lead, Toyota 86 up to #14

Kei cars post: Japan Kei cars October 2012: Mazda Flair and Honda N-One land

Previous month: Japan by version September 2012: Nissan Note above Toyota Prius hatch

One year ago: Japan October 2011: Toyota Prius and Honda Fit impress again

Full October 2012 Top 100 Ranking Table below.

Japan October 2012:


Pos Model Oct Sept Pos Aug Jul
1 Toyota Aqua 24,192 22,039 1 1 1
2 Honda NBOX 18,203 19,914 3 2 2
3 Suzuki Wagon R 15,946 20,891 2 4 5
4 Daihatsu Tanto/Exe 12,101 13,558 6 5 6
5 Toyota Prius 10,305 14,340 5 3 3
6 Nissan Note 10,007 18,355 4 n/a n/a
7 Daihatsu Mira 8,881 9,592 7 10 7
8 Toyota Prius Alpha 7,811 7,751 11 11 12
9 Honda Fit 6,955 9,298 8 6 4
10 Suzuki Alto/Capin 6,711 9,127 9 9 11
11 Toyota Spade 6,180 5,513 19 18 53
12 Suzuki Every 5,937 6,861 14 7 10
13 Toyota Corolla 5,630 5,500 20 13 9
14 Toyota Vitz 5,359 5,990 17 14 8
15 Suzuki Carry 5,229 4,506 25 n/a n/a
16 Daihatsu Move 5,203 7,470 12 12 13
17 Daihatsu Hijet Truck 5,144 5,153 21 23 23
18 Nissan Serena 4,970 8,865 10 8 15
19 Daihatsu Mira Cocoa 4,956 6,169 16 16 17
20 Nissan Moco 4,692 3,782 29 19 18
21 Honda Freed 4,591 6,230 15 15 14
22 Daihatsu Hijet Cargo 4,274 4,936 22 25 28
23 Subaru Impreza 4,217 7,278 13 30 27
24 Toyota Porte 3,648 4,874 23 17 n/a
25 Honda StepWGN 3,465 4,826 24 21 16
26 Suzuki Palette 3,172 4,211 27 20 20
27 Toyota Vellfire 3,169 2,925 38 35 24
28 Toyota 86 3,152 2,818 39 42 46
29 Mitsubishi Mirage 3,054 4,483 26 56 105
30 Mazda CX-5 2,794 5,530 18 24 35
31 Toyota Passo 2,720 3,345 33 28 26
32 Nissan Cube 2,656 2,375 45 41 33
33 Mazda Demio 2,651 4,112 28 22 19
34 Toyota Voxy 2,576 3,032 37 31 31
35 Suzuki Swift 2,557 3,608 31 26 41
36 Nissan Roox 2,440 2,646 42 34 29
37 Toyota Estima 2,411 3,325 34 27 25
38 Honda Fit Shuttle 2,363 3,213 35 32 21
39 Daihatsu Move Conte 2,202 3,770 30 38 39
40 Toyota Crown 2,180 2,267 49 52 51
41 Nissan NV100/NT100 (Clipper) 2,167 n/a n/a n/a n/a
42 Honda Life 2,145 3,599 32 37 42
43 Toyota Pixis Space/Epoch 2,086 2,492 43 29 30
44 Toyota Alphard 2,077 1,896 58 46 36
45 Toyota Noah 2,069 2,292 48 45 40
46 Toyota Mark X 2,000 2,000 55 65 60
47 Suzuki MR Wagon 1,980 2,808 40 33 37
48 Nissan March 1,959 2,753 41 39 22
49 Toyota Ractis 1,909 2,357 46 40 38
50 Suzuki Solio 1,818 3,176 36 36 34
51 Toyota Wish 1,817 2,188 51 43 32
52 Honda Acty Truck 1,669 1,919 57 53 55
53 Nissan X-Trail 1,647 2,337 47 48 50
54 Nissan NV100/Clipper Van 1,576 2,062 54 55 56
55 Mitsubishi eK 1,522 1,979 56 57 52
56 Nissan Juke 1,392 2,265 50 44 44
57 Suzuki Jimny 1,336 1,011 69 63 63
58 Toyota TownAce 1,280 1,252 64 60 61
59 Mazda AZ Wagon 1,215 2,112 52 54 54
60 Toyota Prado/Land Cruiser 1,201 1,006 70 66 64
61 Nissan Latio 1,192 n/a n/a 78 n/a
62 Suzuki Alto Van 1,183 1,095 67 n/a n/a
63 Subaru Legacy/Outback 1,180 2,480 44 49 45
64 Mitsubishi Minicab van 1,136 1,323 61 61 58
65 Toyota Vanguard 1,106 1,055 68 62 59
66 Mitsubishi Minicab truck 1,086 1,177 66 67 62
67 Subaru XV 983 n/a n/a n/a n/a
68 Mazda Flair 866 0 - - -
69 Honda Acty Van 858 637 81 77 73
70 Daihatsu Mira Van 829 816 76 n/a n/a
71 Subaru Stella 754 1,884 59 51 49
72 Daihatsu Atrai 751 n/a n/a 70 72
73 Mitsubishi Outlander 637 149 110 n/a n/a
74 Subaru Sambar Truck 610 935 72 75 69
75 Nissan NT100/Clipper Truck 591 823 74 73 76
76 Honda Vamos 560 542 85 80 74
77 Mazda Flair Wagon 538 657 80 68 65
78 Subaru BRZ 510 504 87 89 85
79 Mitsubishi Delica D5 498 1,197 65 n/a n/a
80 Mazda Scrum Van 490 702 79 79 80
81 Nissan Otti 469 841 73 76 82
82 Mazda Carol 464 632 82 72 66
83 Toyota Pixis Van 464 491 88 84 79
84 Subaru Pleo 463 823 75 69 70
85 Honda CR-Z 456 181 106 98 92
86 Mitsubishi Delica D2 448 991 71 n/a n/a
87 Subaru Sambar Van 442 614 83 83 83
88 Nissan Wingroad 375 741 77 71 68
89 Mitsubishi Pajero mini 354 528 86 82 78
90 Toyota Pixis Truck 353 416 91 87 86
91 Toyota Rumion 343 472 90 81 75
92 Honda Insight 341 715 78 74 67
93 Mazda Verisa 328 613 84 85 93
94 Honda Zest 252 381 94 93 90
95 Mitsubishi Toppo 252 404 92 86 77
96 Mazda Scrum Truck 249 352 95 92 94
97 Subaru Lucra 235 307 98 90 87
98 Subaru Trezia 228 490 89 94 98
99 Suzuki SX4 202 252 99 n/a 97
100 Honda Vamos Pro 185 181 107 n/a n/a

Source: Manufacturers, many thanks to Austin for helping compile the data!

Note: This ranking only features models with available sales figures and is therefore incomplete (Lexus and Toyota Auris sales were not available for example).

Categories: Japan
  1. eddy
    December 7th, 2012 at 14:28 | #1
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    hi Matt,
    Are the Toyota Townace figures also included Toyota Liteace?

  2. spw
    December 7th, 2012 at 13:20 | #2
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    Dear Matt,

    pic you have for Aqua is actually Prius Alpha… Aqua is Prius c in Japan.
    Thanks for the great site!

    • matgasnier
      December 7th, 2012 at 14:39 | #3
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      Hi spw,
      The pic does say it’s the Prius Alpha :)
      cheers
      Matt

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