May Domestic Sales of Passenger Cars in Japan

The Japanese cars affected by the Diaoyu Islands incident had a huge decline in sales since September last year. They fell to the lowest monthly sales in recent years in October; sales began to recover in November and the decline rate gradually narrowed (including the average decline in January and February this year. The amplitude has also narrowed; in April and May this year, the decline has narrowed to single digits.

The sales of Japanese cars continued to decline slightly in May. The decline continued to narrow in May. According to the data compiled by Gasgoo.com, in May of this year, the sales volume of Japanese cars by Japanese auto makers fell by 5.5% year-on-year, and the total sales volume was 222,100. According to the cumulative results from the previous May, Japanese car sales fell by 11.5% year-on-year to 1,309,400 units, a decrease from the previous April (an average decline of 13%).

In terms of market share, in May this year, Japanese car sales accounted for 17.7% of the total domestic passenger car sales, a decrease of 3.2 percentage points from the same period of last year, consistent with April this year and the highest level since last September. From January to May, the Japanese car market share was 16.1%, down 5.4 percentage points year-on-year.

Honda's sales growth and growth rate from the Japanese car prices point of view, in May of this year, Honda sales growth, and the increase in the chain increased, Nissan and Toyota sales fell. Honda's sales in May increased by 7.9% year-on-year to 5.15 million units, an increase from 2.6% in April this year. Sales of its leading models Fengfan, Accord and Civic have both increased by 23%.

Nissan recorded sales of 70,200 vehicles in May this year, a decrease of only 1.9% year-on-year, and the decline was significantly narrower than in previous months. Among its models, Sylphy has the best performance in the market due to the launch of new models. Its sales volume has increased by 73.8% year-on-year to 19,400 units. After Tianhe experienced an alternation of old and new sales, sales have also achieved a 53.7% increase; sales of hackers are also nearly 20%. Promote.

Toyota's May sales fell 12.6% year-on-year to 6.60 million units, a much lower decline than in April (a 1.3% drop). Among its main models, sales of Corolla, Camry and Corolla all exceeded 10,000, but only Corolla sales increased (26.6%).

Among Japanese "three small" companies, Mitsubishi's sales in May increased by more than 20%, but it is still low. Suzuki and Mazda's sales still fell sharply, with a 12% decline.

From January to May, except for Mitsubishi, sales of other Japanese automakers still experienced a decline. Among them, the decline in Nissan is still the highest, although its monthly decline in May has narrowed significantly, but sales fell 20% in the first five months. Among its subcompact models, Sylphy's sales in January-May increased by 83.8% to 94,000 units, which is the best-performing model in the market, and the only sales model that Nissan has grown. Sales from January to May of all major models, including Hacker, Tianzhu, Tiida, and New Sunshine, all fell sharply, both falling by over 20%.

Toyota and Honda sales in January-May were down 9.4% and 1.5% year-on-year to 313,600 units and 239,800 units respectively.