Japanese passenger car production increased by 2.2% in the first half of 2019
- Japanese passenger car production increased by 2.2% in the first half of 2019, while it had fallen by 0.2% over the full year 2018. The volume of automotive production in Japan has stagnated since 2013, at a level close to 8 million units. This situation is the result of the sluggishness of the Japanese market for many years and the continuous development of transplants on foreign soil.
- Over the first six months of 2019, production volume reached 4.27 million passenger cars, compared with 4.18 million units in the first six months of 2018, but it is not clear that the gap will remain positive at the end of the year, given the expected further decline in world markets.
- In addition, the current difficulties of the Nissan group, which is experiencing a worldwide sales decline, will have an impact on the volume of its production in Japan.
- The American government's desire to encourage Japanese manufacturers to produce more Japanese cars on American soil, in order to reduce the number of imports that it considers too high, has had little impact on Japanese manufacturers’ behavior so far.
- The rare "relocations" to Japan also have little impact on overall Japanese production. An example is the Suzuki Swift, which was previously manufactured in Hungary. The Honda Civic manufactured today in England and Turkey will also return to Japan in 2021 (about 150,000 units per year).
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