The Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross breaks into its home Top 30 for its first full month of sales. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 55 All-brands, Top 50 regular cars, Top 33 kei cars and Top 20 foreigners * The Japanese new car market disappoints once again with a 6th consecutive year-on-year…
The Nissan Note posts a second concecutive month as #1 regular car in Japan. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 33 Kei cars, Top 50 All-brands and Top 50 cars * The Japanese new car market slips down 2.2% year-on-year in February to 473.878 registrations, pulling the year-to-date tally further into negative at -1.5%…
The Nissan Note is the best-selling car in Japan this month. Pictures autoc-one.jp * NOW UPDATED with the Top 35 kei cars * * See the Top 52 All-brands and Top 30 cars by clicking on the title * The Japanese new car market edges down 0.5% year-on-year in January to 399.540…
The Nissan Note is the best-selling car in Japan in September. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 52 brands, Top 30 cars, Top 35 kei cars and Top 20 imports * New light vehicle sales in Japan are up 3.9% year-on-year in September to 495.189 units, with the year-to-date total now…
Toyota Sienta * See the Top 30 regular cars, kei cars and Top 55 brands by clicking on the title * Sales of new vehicles in Japan are down 8% year-on-year in June to 425.093 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 3.101.727 units, down 11% on 2014. New tax rates for…
Did you know the Toyota Camry was also sold under the Daihatsu brand as the Altis in Japan? * See the Top 165 All-local models ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Stephen * Thanks to Stephen I can share with you today the 2013 sales results of absolutely all…
The Honda N-BOX enjoys its first year-end pole position in Japan. * See the All-models and All-brands rankings by clicking on the title! Thanks Stephen * I know readers, this is not your favourite update as Japanese Kei cars look confronting at best. However this category is not to be discarded…
The Nissan Dayz is the brand's new best-seller at home. * See the Top 160 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Eddie * For the first time this year, I can give you a complete ranking of the best-selling local models in Japan, but for…
Nissan Dayz * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Stephen * Sales of Kei cars are back in positive: up 2% year-on-year in July to 187,797 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 1,258,410 units, now down just 1% on 2012. The Daihatsu Move…
The Honda N-One is the best performing all-new model in Japan, all categories combined. * See the Top 45 best-selling models and Top 50 brands by clicking on the title! * * This article has now been updated with an exclusive Top 50 brands ranking * After a somewhat artificial boost at…
Daihatsu Move * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Sales of new Kei cars are up 1% year-on-year in Japan to 152,000 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 738,153 units, down 1% on 2012. And this month we get the third different #1 model in as…
Suzuki Spacia * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Kei car ranking is for once relatively eventful this month in Japan. For the first time since last September and only the third time in the last 19 months the Suzuki Wagon R, which led the…
Honda N-BOX * NOW UPDATED with the Top 25 models and All-brands! Click on title to see - thanks Stephen * Sales of Kei cars are down by just 1% year-on-year in February to 184,927 registrations, which is very impressive given we are comparing it with a very high base one year ago. Year-to-date,…
Nissan Note * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to 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 January sales split by version (sedan,…
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…