Japan ’s new car sales fell by 15% in the first half of the year, the lowest since 2011

According to Japanese Economic News, data released by the Japan Automobile Sales Association and the National Light Automobile Association Federation recently released that in the first half of 2022, the sales volume of new domestic cars (including light cars) in Japan fell to about 2.086 million A decrease of 15%, the lowest level since the first half of 2011 (approximately 1.919 million vehicles).

From the perspective of passenger car brands, from January to June, Toyota (excluding Lexus) sales in the Japanese market were about 638,000 units, a year -on -year decrease of 19%; Subaru's Japanese market sales were about 46,000 units, a decrease of year -on -year decrease twenty one%.

The Japan Automobile Sales Association Federation and the National Light Automobile Association Federation believes that the shortage of components and Japanese domestic factories in Japanese car companies are affected by China ’s sealing control and reduced production or stagnation. In the first half of this year, the sales data of new Japanese car in the first half of this year was not only lower than the same period of 2020 (about 2.207 million units), which was affected by the epidemic, but also below the same period of 2009 (about 2.186 million vehicles) that caused economic deterioration due to the Lehman crisis). Essence

Specifically, from January to June, the number of domestic registered vehicles (displacement over 660cc) in Japan decreased to 1.2858 million units, a year -on -year decrease of 16%; sales of light vehicles decreased to about 800,000, a year -on -year decrease of 15%.

Among them, in June of this year, the sales volume (including light cars) in Japan (including light cars) was about 327,900, a decrease of 10%year -on -year. The number of cars fell to 1975,500, a year -on -year decrease of 16%, the lowest monthly monthly level since the start of statistics started in 1968; the sales of light vehicles were about 130,000, a decrease of 0.4%year -on -year.

From the perspective of brands, affected by multiple factors such as component shortages and control policies, in June of this year, Toyota's domestic sales decreased by 25%year -on -year, and large -scale industrial sales decreased by 18%year -on -year.

It is worth mentioning that the above report also stated that Toyota Motors revealed on July 1 that its existing models (300 series) of its SUV models, the land cruiser, have stopped receiving orders. This is mainly due to the influence of the chip shortage and the extension of the delivery period. Before starting the production of the next car, it may not be unable to complete the production of orders. After the production is returning to normal, the existing models will start receiving orders again.

A few days ago, a Toyota Chinese insider told the reporter of "Daily Economic News": "The limited capacity of Toyota has mainly appeared in the Japanese local market, and the Chinese market is temporarily not affected."

Daily Economic News

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