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…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of 'regular' new vehicles are down 9% year-on-year in October in Japan to 225,543 units, all-in-all a softer drop than expected given the end of the government's incentive program for eco-friendly cars. The year-to-date…
Nissan Note * See the Top 110 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 September sales split by version and…
VW Up! * See Japan's best-selling imports by clicking on the title! * Volkswagen released its new Up! in Japan on October 1. Three weeks on, orders for the mini car have just reached 3,000. The Nikkei thinks the Up! “may beat the Golf to become the German automaker’s most successful…
Suzuki Wagon R * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of new Kei cars are up 7% year-on-year in September to 158,208, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,571,616 units, up 41% on 2011. For the first time since September 2011, the Suzuki Wagon R,…