Honda NBOX * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In December sales of Kei cars are up 18% year-on-year at 127,246 units, bringing the final 2011 total to 1,521,146 registrations, down 12% on 2010. Last month the Daihatsu Mira managed to hold the pole position for…
VW Golf * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Imports sales in Japan are compiled by a different organisation, the Japan Automobile Importers Association, and 2011 figures are out! Japanese consumers bought 205,857 foreign models in 2011, up 13% on 2010 and bringing the…
Toyota Prius * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * NOW UPDATED with imports: The VW Golf now #24 overall! (See here for full details) 2011 was a very tough year for Japan. The deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunami paralysed the country for many…
Daihatsu Mira E:S * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Boosted by the new E:S version, the Daihatsu Mira confirms its newly acquired pole position in the Kei car ranking, even improving on an already outstanding October to 20,052 sales, up a massive 284% on November…
Toyota Prius Alpha * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Japanese car market is up another 24% year-on-year this month after growing by 28% in October, a contrast to the tsunami-plagued first half of the year. The Toyota Prius continues to dominate the…
Daihatsu Mira E:S * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to the E:S version just launched, the Daihatsu Mira, #2 last month, grabs the pole position in October with almost double the sales of the next best-selling Kei car in Japan! Its 19,918 sales…
Toyota Prius MPV (US version) * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title of the article or 'Read more'! * Japanese new car sales are up an impressive 28% year-on-year vs. October 2010 when sales tanked on the first full month after government subsidies to replace cars…
Daihatsu Mira * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * While the Japanese passenger car market is up by 1.7% this month, the Kei cars market is still down year-on-year at -9%. The Suzuki Wagon R leads the way for the 7th consecutive…
Honda Fit Shuttle * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * For the first time since August 2010, the Japanese car market is up year-on-year, but at a very shy +1.7% and 313,790 registrations. The year-to-date total is still down 26%…
Nissan Moco * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * At 113,328 units, the Kei cars market is down 16% year-on-year. The Top 5 best-sellers are unchanged vs. July: the Suzuki Wagon R leads the way at 12,933 sales (-4%), followed by the…
Toyota Prius * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * At 216,150 registrations August 2011 Japanese car sales are down 25% on August 2010 which was artificially boosted by government subsidies, but up 9% on August 2009... The Toyota Prius stays…
Suzuki Wagon R * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * While passenger car sales experienced a set back this month (-28%), the Kei cars market continues to recover, down 14% in July at 131,586 registrations, compared to -18% in June, -25% in…
Nissan Lafesta Highway Star * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * After dropping an 'encouraging' 23% in June, the Japanese car market is down 28% in July at 241,472 registrations, with Toyota at -37% and Honda at -33%... The Toyota…
Suzuki Wagon R Like the passenger car market, sales of Kei cars are slowly back to normal, down 'only' 18% in June at 126,804 units compared to -25% in May and -45% in April. For the 4th month in a row, the Suzuki Wagon R is the best-selling Kei car in…
Nissan March Japanese car sales are down 'only' 23% this month at 225,024 units, compared to -38% in May and -51% in April. In June, an average 10,228 cars were registered per day, up from 7,482 in May and 5,441 in April. Nissan even showed a 4% increase year-on-year while…