Top passenger cars sales in Japan over the first 9 months of 2017
- The Japanese market (PC + LCV) has increased by 8.8% over the first nine months of 2017. If we look at the top 20 models, we can see that there have been a lot of changes from one year to the next. First, the Toyota Prius lost its leading position by losing 75,000 sales that went to the CHR which won 100,000 sales. The CHR has also taken sales from the Toyota Aqua, which lost 40,000 sales. The Toyota CHR thus made a spectacular breakthrough to reach 7th place.
- The Nissan Note, Nissan DAYZ, Nissan Daihatsu Move, Honda Freed, Nissan Serena are progressing strongly, thanks to recent renewal or restyling, yet these models are progressing less strongly than the CHR.
- The Honda N-Box is in first place in 2017, when it was second the year before.
- By segment, we see that A segment vehicles (midgets or K-cars) account for 36.4% of the Japanese market (vs. 36.3% in 2016), B segment vehicles 24.9% (vs. 24.3 % in 2016), C segment vehicles 24.3% (vs. 23% in 2016), D segment vehicles 8.4% (vs. 10% in 2016) and E segment vehicles 6% (vs. 6, 2% in 2016).
- By body type, sedans go from 67% of the Japanese market in 2016 to 65% in 2017, SUVs gain 1.5% ( from 12% to 13.5%) and minivans 0.5% ( from 21% to 21.5%). Today more minivans than SUVs are still sold in Japan, which is one of the peculiarities of this market.
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