Daihatsu Move * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 8 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Sales of Kei cars are surprisingly up 1% year-on-year in January, even compared with a very high base one year ago. The Honda N-BOX tops the ranking for the 9th time in…
Citroen DS3 (#243) and C3 (#203) * See the Top 375 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Thanks to a secret admirer of BSCB I can share with you for the very first time in the 2.5 years history of this site an exclusive All-models ranking for Japan…
Toyota Crown 'Royal' Series * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 13 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Sales of Passenger Cars (ex-Kei cars) are down 13% year-on-year in Japan in January to 229,333 registrations. This is in fact not such a bad result, given January 2012…
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…
Daihatsu Mira es * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Excellent year for new Kei cars sales in Japan: up whopping 30% to 1,979,447 registrations. For a bit of perspective, this is more than the entire French market this year (1,898,872 sales) and just under the UK…
Honda NBOX * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * New Kei cars sales are down 2% year-on-year in December to 124,075 registrations, bringing the Full Year total to 1,979,447 units, up 30% on 2011 and more than…
The Toyota Aqua is the most successful nameplate launch in Japan in at least 20 years! * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 14 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Boosted by government subsidies for the purchase of clean vehicles, the Japanese new 'regular' car market is up a…
Subaru Impreza XV * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 14 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * New 'regular' car sales in Japan resist quite well in December at just -3% year-on-year to 214,429 registrations, bringing the Final Year…
Mini Countryman * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Sales of new imported Passenger Cars are up a very healthy 15% year-on-year to 300,594 registrations in 2012, breaking the 300,000 annual unit-barrier for the first time in 15 years! As it…
VW Up! * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * * See the Full Year 2012 post here * Every quarter we have access to sales of imported vehicles in Japan, reported by a different organisation, the Japan Automobile Importers Association. Note that from now…
Mazda Atenza (aka Mazda6) * 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 20 in Japan, we have a more thorough look at overall October sales split by version and…
Honda N-One * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Another solid month for Kei cars sales: while regular vehicles are down 3% year-on-year in November, Kei cars are up 5% to 149,968 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,855,373 units, up a mammoth 33% on 2011. This comes at…
Subaru Forester * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 13 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title * The Japanese new car market continues to perform better than expected after government incentives expired in September. Some analysts predicted a 20% year-on-year drop, but sales of regular cars (ex-Kei) are down…
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…
Honda N-One by Mugen * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * While sales of regular vehicles were down 9% year-on-year in October, Kei cars are actually up 0.5% to 133,790 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,705,405 units, up 36% on 2011. This comes at a…