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…
Daihatsu Move After dropping by 45% last month, the Kei car market is on the mend like the passenger cars, down 18% in May at 58,307 units. The Suzuki Wagon R is the best-seller in the category for the third month in a row at 11,185 sales, down 23% and…
2012 Subaru Impreza Car sales in Japan are on the mend but still down 38% year-on-year at 142,154 units, the lowest May figure since 1968. Toyota drops 57%. The Honda Fit holds onto its pole position for the 3rd month in a row, down only 22% at 9,354 sales. The…
Subaru Stella The Japanese Kei car market is down 45% this month with 76,849 registrations, due to repercussions from the March 11 quake. On May 8, Subaru announced it would stop producing Kei cars with best-seller Stella being halted as early as the end of the month. Stock-clearing rebates could…
Honda Fit Bad news keep coming from Japan. As predicted, the new car market plunged even further in April, down 51% year-on-year to 108,824 units, the lowest monthly volume since records started in January 1968. Toyota is hit hardest at -69%. More details here. The models ranking is surprisingly stable…
Suzuki WagonR After two months under the leadership of the Daihatsu Move, the Suzuki Wagon R reclaims its title of best selling Kei car for the first time this year with 17,290 sales. It is however still #2 year-to-date at 42,764 units vs. 47,215 for the Move. The next three models…
Honda Fit Hybrid The effect on car sales of the quake and tsunami that devastated the country is now tangible: the Japanese car market dropped 37% in March at 279,389 units. This is the highest year-on-year fall for Nippon car sales since the -55% of May 1974 during the oil-supply…