Japan New Car Sales September 2013 (top 45 best seller list)

In September, Japan new car sales  are trending up.

The main reason is that Japan VAT is set to rise from 3% at the beginning of the fiscal year, 1st April 2014.

Sales of cars are going up only for this reason, so it ispossible to expect bad volumes after April 2014.

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In september, Toyota sold most cars with 136,953 cars, which represents 42.2% of the japanese car registration for that month. (Not including Kei cars category)
Honda is the second best seller with a total of 74,780 cars ( 39,400 cars + 35,380 Kei)
 
Nissan is the third biggest seller in Japan with 71,345 (50,776 cars + 20,569 Kei)

Daihatsu is the fourth seller with 61,581 cars registred, Suzuki with 55, 779, Mazda with 16,669 untis

The japanese car trend for this year is Hybrid or small engines.

Mercedes-Benz had a terrific September with more than 7,000 new cars registrated.

Position Model September new car registration
1 Toyota Aqua  (26,543)
2 Toyota Prius (23,069) 
3 Honda N-BOX (22,723) (Kei)
4 Honda Fit (19,388)  
5 Daihatsu Move  (19,123) (Kei)

6 Daihatsu Mira (17,753) (Kei)
7 Nissan Note (15,660)
8 Suzuki WagonR (15,453) (Kei)
9 Nissan Dayz (13,800) (Kei)
10 Suzuki Spacia (13,262) (Kei) 11 Suzuki Alto (11,097) (Kei)
11 Daihatsu Tanto (10,948) (Kei)
12 Nissan Serena (10,865)
13 Toyota Corolla (10,784)
14 Honda Step wagon (8,237) 
15 Honda Freed (7,909)
16 Honda N-ONE (6,951) (Kei)17 Toyota Vitz (6,869) 
17 Subaru Impreza (6,672)
18 Toyota Crown (6,389)
19 Mitsubishi eK (6,338) (Kei)23 Toyota Vellfire (5,009)
20 Toyota Spade (4,495)
21 Mazda Demio (4,240)
22 Nissan Moco (4,003) (Kei) 
23 Mazda CX-5 (3,992)
24 Toyota Voxy (3,745)
25 Suzuki Swift  (3,724) 32 Subaru Forester (3,663)
26 Toyota Estima (3,496)
27 Toyota Passo (3,397)
28 Toyota Alphard (3,263) 
29 Suzuki MR Wagon (3,109) (Kei)
30 Nissan X-Trail (2,901)
31 Toyota Porte (2,896)
32 Toyota Pixis Space (2,318) (Kei)
33 Nissan March (2,590)
34 Suzuki Solio (2,718) 40 Nissan Juke (2,659)
35 Toyota Noah (2,649) 
36 Subaru Stella (2,249) (Kei)
37 Toyota Sai (2,185)
38 Mazda Premacy (2,092)
39 Toyota Wish (2,022)
40 Mazda Flair (1,671) (Kei)
41 Mazda Atenza (1,648)
42 Toyota Ractis (1,632)
43 Subaru Legacy (1,443)
44 Mazda Flair Wagon (1,431)

View September 2013 New Car Sales ranking Here.

Read what is a Kei car here.