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Japan by version December 2012: Nissan Sylphy & Subaru BRZ up

January 29th, 2013 Leave a comment Go to comments

Nissan Sylphy

* See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Austin *

As is now the tradition, after exploring the Passenger car Top 30 and the Kei car Top 25 in Japan, we have a more thorough look at overall December sales split by version (sedan, MPV…) and with Light Commercial Vehicles added. It has been an absolutely outstanding year for the Toyota Aqua, #1 for the 11th month in a row (no interruption since last February!) with 20,397 sales, while the Honda NBOX holds the 2nd spot for the 8th time in the last 9 months at 13,646 units. The Suzuki Wagon R rounds up the podium for the third consecutive month with 12,424 sales.

Subaru BRZ

Excellent month for the Nissan Note up 3 spots on November to #5 and for the Daihatsu Move/Conte up 5 to #11. The Toyota Prius is down to its worst ranking of the year at #7 while its MPV version the Prius Alpha continues to catch up: now equivalent to 87% of the Prius sales with 7,723 vs. 8,850. The Honda N-One progresses further to #9 thanks to 8,314 sales.

Further down, the Subaru Forester is up 5 ranks to #25, the Nissan Sylphy makes its first appearance in the ranking at #35, Subaru XV sales are available again at an impressive 2,090 units (#39), the Mazda Atenza (aka Mazda6) breaks into the Top 50 at #48 and the Subaru BRZ catches up on the Toyota 86 at a best-ever #61 with 1,001 sales vs. 1,091 for the 86…

Previous month: Japan by version November 2012: Mazda Atenza lands

Full December 2012 Top 100 Ranking Table below.

Japan by version December 2012:


Pos Model Dec Nov Pos Oct Sep Aug
1 Toyota Aqua 20,397 26,346 1 1 1 1
2 Honda NBOX 13,646 16,406 2 2 3 2
3 Suzuki Wagon R 12,424 14,368 3 3 2 4
4 Daihatsu Tanto/Exe 9,944 12,332 5 4 6 5
5 Nissan Note 9,828 10,361 8 6 4 n/a
6 Daihatsu Move/Conte 9,346 8,421 11 16 12 12
7 Toyota Prius 8,850 12,000 6 5 5 3
8 Daihatsu Mira 8,528 10,685 7 7 7 10
9 Honda N-One 8,314 9,674 10 n/a  -  -
10 Toyota Prius Alpha 7,723 10,039 9 8 11 11
11 Honda Fit 6,240 6,845 12 9 8 6
12 Suzuki Alto/Lapin 5,936 6,417 13 10 9 9
13 Suzuki Carry 5,582 5,100 19 15 25 n/a
14 Daihatsu Mira Cocoa 5,115 4,821 21 19 16 16
15 Suzuki Every 4,998 12,541 4 12 14 7
16 Honda Freed 4,910 4,418 23 21 15 15
17 Nissan Serena 4,511 5,482 17 18 10 8
18 Toyota Corolla 4,440 5,710 15 13 20 13
19 Toyota Vitz 4,175 5,889 14 14 17 14
20 Daihatsu Hijet Truck 4,131 5,327 18 17 21 23
21 Nissan Moco 3,565 4,258 24 20 29 19
22 Honda StepWGN 3,463 3,513 26 25 24 21
23 Daihatsu Hijet Cargo 3,385 4,781 22 22 22 25
24 Subaru Impreza 3,160 5,637 16 23 13 30
25 Subaru Forester 3,109 3,113 30 n/a n/a n/a
26 Toyota Spade 3,044 5,090 20 11 19 18
27 Toyota Vellfire 2,637 3,245 28 27 38 35
28 Suzuki Palette 2,584 2,845 33 26 27 20
29 Suzuki Swift 2,584 2,631 36 35 31 26
30 Mazda Demio 2,581 2,794 34 33 28 22
31 Toyota Passo 2,528 3,167 29 31 33 28
32 Nissan Roox 2,468 3,051 32 36 42 34
33 Toyota Porte 2,467 3,913 25 24 23 17
34 Toyota Voxy 2,457 3,070 31 34 37 31
35 Nissan Sylphy 2,372 n/a n/a  -  -  -
36 Honda Fit Shuttle 2,140 2,475 37 38 35 32
37 Mazda CX-5 2,108 2,270 43 30 18 24
38 Mitsubishi eK 2,105 2,028 48 55 56 57
39 Subaru XV 2,090 n/a n/a 67 n/a n/a
40 Toyota Estima 2,052 2,690 35 37 34 27
41 Toyota Alphard 2,032 2,418 39 44 58 46
42 Toyota Noah 1,839 2,281 41 45 48 45
43 Suzuki Solio 1,834 1,962 49 50 36 36
44 Toyota Ractis 1,743 2,078 47 49 46 40
45 Toyota Pixis Space/Epoch 1,735 2,239 45 43 43 29
46 Toyota Wish 1,647 2,131 46 51 51 43
47 Nissan March 1,623 n/a n/a 48 41 39
48 Mazda Atenza 1,584 1,798 52 n/a n/a n/a
49 Toyota Crown 1,555 2,364 40 40 49 52
50 Suzuki Jimny 1,548 1,304 59 57 69 63
51 Suzuki MR Wagon 1,542 1,799 51 47 40 33
52 Mitsubishi Mirage 1,359 2,467 38 29 26 56
53 Nissan X-Trail 1,320 1,731 54 53 47 48
54 Honda Acty Truck 1,296 1,359 56 52 57 53
55 Toyota Mark X 1,270 2,250 44 46 55 65
56 Honda Life 1,260 1,350 58 42 32 37
57 Mitsubishi Minicab van 1,118 1,151 62 64 61 61
58 Subaru Stella 1,109 1,368 55 71 59 51
59 Toyota 86 1,091 1,777 53 28 39 42
60 Nissan NV100/Clipper Van 1,067 3,391 27 54 54 55
61 Subaru BRZ 1,001 458 80 78 87 89
62 Nissan Juke 926 1,356 57 56 50 44
63 Mitsubishi Minicab truck 913 973 63 66 66 67
64 Mazda Flair 899 1,193 61 68 - -
65 Toyota Ace 888 1,281 60 n/a n/a n/a
66 Subaru Legacy/Outback 826 1,922 50 63 44 49
67 Suzuki Alto Van 772 897 64 62 67 n/a
68 Honda Acty Van 673 823 65 69 81 77
69 Mazda Carol 643 569 74 82 82 72
70 Daihatsu Mira Van 591 742 66 70 76 n/a
71 Subaru Sambar Truck 567 600 72 74 72 75
72 Nissan Latio 537 n/a n/a 61 n/a 78
73 Mitsubishi Delica D5 525 531 75 79 65 n/a
74 Nissan NT100/Clipper Truck 511 706 68 75 74 73
75 Subaru Pleo 510 315 89 84 75 69
76 Honda Vamos 488 695 69 76 85 80
77 Daihatsu Atrai 455 521 76 72 n/a 70
78 Mazda Scrum Van 455 507 77 80 79 79
79 Toyota Pixis Van 439 372 85 83 88 84
80 Mitsubishi Delica D2 413 481 78 86 71 n/a
81 Mitsubishi Outlander 413 732 67 73 110 n/a
82 Mitsubishi RVR 390 419 82 n/a 93 n/a
83 Mazda AZ Wagon 388 688 70 59 52 54
84 Honda CR-Z 380 408 84 85 106 98
85 Mazda Flair Wagon 380 574 73 77 80 68
86 Subaru Sambar Van 370 472 79 87 83 83
87 Nissan Otti 332 426 81 81 73 76
88 Toyota Rumion 308 411 83 91 90 81
89 Mazda Verisa 253 321 86 93 84 85
90 Mitsubishi Pajero mini 235 317 88 89 86 82
91 Mitsubishi Toppo 234 288 90 95 92 86
92 Suzuki SX4 232 193 95 99 99 n/a
93 Toyota Pixis Truck 228 320 87 90 91 87
94 Mazda Scrum Truck 223 226 93 96 95 92
95 Honda Insight 198 244 91 92 78 74
96 Honda Vamos Pro 170 222 94 100 107 n/a
97 Subaru Lucra 165 230 92 97 98 90
98 Subaru Trezia 150 153 99 98 89 94
99 Mitsubishi i-MiEV 137 189 96 n/a 101 101
100 Mitsubishi Pajero 136 180 97 n/a 108 n/a

Source: Manufacturers. Many thanks to Austin for sharing the data.

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  1. Kimmi
    January 30th, 2013 at 02:46 | #1
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    Do you have Nissan Leaf sales data? It should be at around 1.000 units/month.

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