Toyota Vellfire * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The first half of 2011 was a traumatic time for Japan, devastated by an earthquake and tsunami with damage that will take years to rebuild. As a counterbalance the first 6 months of 2012 have…
Mazda CX-5 * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * At 317,152 units, Japanese passenger car sales are up 41% year-on-year in June, still off a low based as June 2011 sales were still disrupted by the after-effects of the tsunami that hit the country…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * NOTE This is not yet sales figures for June in Japan but a more detailed look at overall May sales of both passenger and Kei cars split by version, to see…
Chevrolet Sail * Click on the title to see the full article! * Now that most May sales figures have come through, I welcome you to BSCB's third World Roundup after March and April 2012. This month the focus is on General Motors, reporting its highest US monthly sales in…
Honda NBOX * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Kei car sales in Japan are up 67% year-on-year in May to 157,584 registrations, partly due to a low May 2011 base and bringing the year-to-date total to 902,236 units, up 51% on 2011. Honda is…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Japan are up a massive 66% year-on-year in May to 236,366 registrations, the combined effect of government subsidies on environmentally friendly cars and a low May 2011 based linked to the…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Once again thanks to Austin Rutherford I can share with you the detail of Japanese models sales by variant, including Kei cars. And for the third month in a row the…
Suzuki Swift This is our second monthly World round up after March 2012, and if last month the focus was on the Toyota Prius family and its huge success in the US and Japan, April takes us to India where we witness a historical change... Don't get me wrong, the Prius is…
Honda NBOX Custom (kinda looks like a warped Toyota Land Cruiser don't you think?) * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Kei car market once again behaves like the passenger car one this month, up 96% to 150,654 registrations due to the comparison with a…
Toyota 86 * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Japanese car sales are up a record 92% year-on-year in April to 208,977 however this is to be compared with the record low of April last year when the market was devastated by the after-effects…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Thanks to Austin Rutherford I am able to share with you for the second month in a row the detail of Japanese models sales by variant, including Kei cars. And for…
Mercedes C-Class * 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 they publish models data every Quarter. Over the first 3 months of 2011, Japanese consumers bought 84,234 imported cars,…
Daihatsu Mira Cocoa * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In line with the Passenger Car market, Kei car sales in Japan are up 60% year-on-year in March to 253,929 units. The Daihatsu Mira reaches what has to be its best monthly figure ever at…
Toyota Prius & Prius Alpha * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Japanese vehicles sales continue on their amazing run in this start of the year, up a huge 72% year-on-year in March to 497,959 registrations (this exclude Kei cars), bringing the year-to-date total…
Toyota Aqua * See the Top 75 best-selling Japanese models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Thanks to the hard work of Austin Rutherford, I can now share with you a more detailed models ranking for Japan in February 2012, including break downs into different variants…