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Taiwan Full Year 2012: Toyota Corolla and Camry on top

January 9th, 2013 Leave a comment Go to comments

Toyota Camry

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New car sales in Taiwan are down 3% year-on-year in 2012 to 365,871 registrations, and the most popular model in the country is not a surprise: the Toyota Corolla is in the driving seat for the 7th consecutive time at least with 36,342 sales and just under 10% market share, behaving exactly like the market at -3% year-on-year. The best performer this year is the Toyota Camry, boosted by the new generation of the model and up 4 spots and 23% on 2011 to #2 at 17,064 units and 4.7%. It never threatened the Corolla for the top spot though. Down one rank on 2011, the Nissan Tiida rounds up the Taiwanese podium with 15,477 sales and 4.2%, down 15%.

CMC Mitsubishi Veryca

The next 3 models all drop one spot on last year as well: the Toyota Wish is #4 (-9%) followed by the Nissan Livina (-12%) and Toyota Yaris (-17%) while the Mitsubishi Veryca is up two ranks to #7 (-9%), ahead of the Toyota Vios (-19%). Two models make a brilliant first appearance in the year-end Top 10: the Toyota Innova is up 195% and 21 spots to #9 at 9,427 units and the Honda CR-V is up 15% and 15 ranks to #10 with 8,562 sales. Notice also the Mitsubishi Delica up 106% to #14, the Hyundai Elantra up to #16, Mazda5 up to #18 and Nissan March up to #23.

Previous month: Taiwan December 2012: Toyota Yaris and Honda CR-V impress

Previous year: Taiwan Full Year 2011: Toyota Corolla #1, Toyota Wish & Nissan Livina up

Full Year 2012 Top 30 models and Top 6 brands Ranking Tables below.

Taiwan Full Year 2012 – brands:

Pos Brand 2012 % /11 2011 % Pos
1 Toyota, Lexus 123,740 33.8% 4% 119,440 31.6% 1
2 Mitsubishi, CMC 48,407 13.2% -12% 54,883 14.5% 2
3 Nissan, Infiniti 40,902 11.2% -8% 44,266 11.7% 3
4 Honda 18,794 5.1% -4% 19,496 5.2% 5
5 Ford 18,449 5.0% -17% 22,148 5.9% 4
6 Hyundai 15,938 4.4% 11% 14,397 3.8% 6

Taiwan Full Year 2012 – models:

Pos Model 2012 % /11 2011 % Pos
1 Toyota Corolla 36,342 9.9% -3% 37,571 9.9% 1
2 Toyota Camry 17,064 4.7% 23% 13,888 3.7% 6
3 Nissan Tiida 15,477 4.2% -15% 18,151 4.8% 2
4 Toyota Wish 14,382 3.9% -9% 15,886 4.2% 3
5 Nissan Livina 13,931 3.8% -12% 15,876 4.2% 4
6 Toyota Yaris 12,905 3.5% -17% 15,536 4.1% 5
7 Mitsubishi Veryca 9,661 2.6% -9% 10,665 2.8% 9
8 Toyota Vios 9,427 2.6% -19% 11,585 3.1% 7
9 Toyota Innova 8,850 2.4% 195% 3,003 0.8% 30
10 Honda CR-V 8,562 2.3% 15% 7,475 2.0% 15
11 Toyota RAV4 8,532 2.3% -23% 11,150 2.9% 8
12 Mitsubishi Colt Plus 6,928 1.9% -24% 9,176 2.4% 11
13 Mitsubishi Lancer Fortis 6,742 1.8% -16% 8,059 2.1% 13
14 Mitsubishi Delica 6,402 1.7% 106% 3,103 0.8% 28
15 Mazda3 6,336 1.7% -39% 10,403 2.7% 10
16 Hyundai Elantra 5,718 1.6% n/a n/a n/a n/a
17 Ford Focus 5,522 1.5% -30% 7,911 2.1% 14
18 Mazda5 5,409 1.5% n/a n/a n/a n/a
19 Mitsubishi Outlander 5,238 1.4% -27% 7,186 1.9% 16
20 Honda Fit 5,182 1.4% -5% 5,449 1.4% 20
21 Mercedes C Class 4,934 1.3% 16% 4,241 1.1% 26
22 Hyundai ix35 4,593 1.3% -30% 6,586 1.7% 17
23 Nissan March 4,515 1.2% n/a n/a n/a n/a
24 Mitsubishi Zinger 4,401 1.2% 1% 4,365 1.2% 24
25 Honda Civic 4,351 1.2% -14% 5,034 1.3% 21
26 Luxgen 7 SUV 4,299 1.2% -50% 8,619 2.3% 12
27 Lexus RX 4,265 1.2% 39% 3,069 0.8% 29
28 VW Golf 4,238 1.2% -24% 5,553 1.5% 19
29 BMW 5 Series 3,913 1.1% 6% 3,683 1.0% 27
30 Lexus CT 2,759 0.8% n/a n/a n/a n/a

Source: news.u-car.com.tw, www.autonet.com.tw

Note: This ranking is based on available monthly rankings throughout 2012 and may not be 100% accurate.

Categories: Taiwan
  1. Miguel
    January 9th, 2013 at 02:59 | #1
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    @kurtbinh
    Ford make excellent relaible cars that are a huge success all over the world.

  2. kurtbinh
    January 9th, 2013 at 02:33 | #2
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    I think Ford is best quality car in 2013. Toyota is not good now.

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