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During the April - June 2009 period, production volumes in Asia of Honda, Nissan, and Suzuki increased year-on-yearToyota and Honda revised their FY2009 consolidated sales volume forecasts upward by 100,000 and 85,000 units, respectively Aug. 24, 2009 No.801

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Executive Summary

  This report gives an outline of Japanese auto manufacturers' production volumes by region; and their April-June quarterly financial results.

  Due to the continued low volume of vehicles being exported from Japan, the production volume in Japan for the April-June 2009 period for all companies combined decreased by 1,168,000 units overall (down 40.6%) when compared to that for the same period a year earlier.

  Production volume outside Japan, which is mainly being supported by the auto manufacturers' Asian operations, declined 37% between January and March, 33.7% in April, 29.0% in May, and 14.1% in June, showing that the percentage of decline has been steadily improving each month. Taking a look at the number of units produced in Asia, excluding Japan, for the April-June 2009 period, we see that the production of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, and Mitsubishi Motors fell only 5.7% on average compared to the same period a year ago.

  When looking at the volume of units sold between April and June 2009, we noted that the 10 Japanese auto manufacturers in total experienced a decrease of 1,772,000 units (down 32.3%) year-on-year, for a total of 3,707,000. For sake of comparison, they sold 5,478,000 units in the April-June period of 2008. As a group, their consolidated revenue fell 37.3% compared to the same period in 2008, and they ended up reporting a combined operating loss of 243.1 billion yen, which is in contrast to a combined operating profit of 801.6 billion yen in the same period in 2008.

  Although they are still suffering from poor business results, the Japanese auto manufacturers saw some improvement in the April - June 2009 period compared to the January-March period. In addition, Toyota and Honda, which are currently enjoying strong sales of eco cars, revised their FY2009 sales volume forecasts upward by 100,000 and 85,000 units, respectively; and their forecasts for their full-year FY2009 operating profit upward by 100 billion yen and 60 billion yen, respectively. However, since they both revised their first-half-year results upward by 200 billion yen and 100 billion yen, respectively, they will fall short of the amounts for their second-half-year results that they initially had forecast.

  Daihatsu also revised upward its operating profit forecast for the first half of FY2009, from 2 billion yen initially to 6 billion yen. However, Daihatsu has not changed its forecast for operating profit for the full year, which is still set at 17 billion yen, as it, like Toyota and Honda also, is taking a very cautious approach under the current business environment.

Production volume by region (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, and Mitsubishi Motors)

(1,000 units)

Production volume by region (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, and Mitsubishi Motors)

(units)

	2007	2008	Oct.-Dec. 2007	Jan.-Mar. 2008	Apr.-Jun. 2008	Jul.-Sep. 2008	Oct.-Dec. 2008	Jan.-Mar. 2009	Apr.-Jun. 2009
										Rate of change
Japan	9,694,638	9,528,279	2,617,685	2,641,722	2,365,512	2,361,660	2,159,379	1,375,969	1,426,868	-39.7%
North America	4,017,363	3,581,464	996,096	989,369	978,531	870,398	743,173	497,128	615,354	-37.1%
Europe	1,821,195	1,693,316	474,254	505,527	472,443	406,811	308,514	225,186	256,780	-45.6%
Asia	3,437,803	3,681,589	903,880	956,782	930,091	922,334	872,445	801,992	876,952	-5.7%
Others	807,538	884,732	235,044	214,958	233,453	236,547	199,749	152,652	166,284	-28.8%
Total	19,779,537	19,369,380	5,226,959	5,308,358	4,980,030	4,798,750	4,282,260	3,052,927	3,342,238	-32.9%

(Notes) 1.	The figures given for Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi Motors are based on information provided by each of the companies and are for vehicles sold under their own respective brands. The figures given for Toyota and Suzuki are based on the combined numbers of units produced according to their financial statements.
2.	Nissan's figures for North America include Mexico. Nissan's figures for Asia only include China. Nissan's figures under "Other" include the production volumes in Asia, excluding China.
3.	The figures given for each of the quarters are the totals for the respective three months based on preliminary monthly volume reports. Therefore, they don't match the total annual figures given by each auto manufacturer.
4.	The total figures by region for 2007, July-September 2008, and October-December 2008 differ by 1,000 from the figures in the bottom row because Suzuki gave only approximate figures.

 

The rate of decrease in production volume outside Japan in June 2009 was 14%, an improvement over the 37% drop seen in the January-March period

  Between April-June 2009, the production volume in Japan of Japanese auto manufacturers decreased by 1,168,000 units compared to the same-period in 2008. Combined, the auto makers produced a total of 1,712,000 units, which is a 40.6% drop, resulting from the continued low volume of vehicles being exported from Japan.

  The production volume outside Japan of eight Japanese passenger car manufacturers fell by 778,000 units (down 25.8%) for a total of 2,234,000 produced. However, the drop in percentage each month shows a steady improvement, as the numbers were down 33.7% in April, 29.0% in May, and 14.1% in June.

 

Figures for Japan: production volume, unit sales, and export volume of 8 Japanese auto manufacturers

(units)

		Domestic production	Oversea production		Production total	Domestic sales	Export from Japan
			JAMA data	8 company total
2005		10,799,659	10,606,157	9,957,635	20,757,294	5,852,067	5,053,061
2006		11,484,233	10,972,243	10,347,932	21,832,165	5,739,506	5,966,672
2007		11,596,327	11,859,761	11,554,659	23,150,986	5,353,648	6,549,940
2008 Rate of change		11,575,644 -0.2%	11,651,428 -1.8%	11,335,259 -1.9%	22,910,903 -1.0%	5,082,235 -5.1%	6,727,091 2.7%
Jan.-Jun.	2007 2008 2009	5,713,469 6,059,185 3,321,651	5,841,141 6,232,655	5,691,484 6,071,234 4,159,284	11,404,953 12,130,419 7,480,935	2,842,518 2,786,168 2,186,738	3,109,751 3,505,805 1,433,488
Jul.-Sep.	2007 2008	2,754,014 2,920,898	2,910,969 2,876,118	2,834,503 2,799,335	5,588,517 5,720,233	1,286,040 1,241,501	1,603,460 1,731,828
Oct.-Dec.	2007 2008	3,128,844 2,595,561	3,107,651 2,530,593	3,020,679 2,462,913	6,149,523 5,058,474	1,225,090 1,054,566	1,836,729 1,489,458
Jan.-Mar.	2008 2009	3,179,879 1,610,006	3,138,408 1,966,440	3,058,903 1,924,848	6,238,782 3,534,854	1,609,833 1,228,376	1,798,445 674,167
Apr.-Jun.	2008 2009	2,879,306 1,711,645		3,012,331 2,234,436	5,891,637 3,946,081	1,176,335 958,362	1,707,360 759,321
April	2008 2009	917,981 485,405		1,049,555 695,582	1,967,536 1,180,987	368,827 284,034	584,059 206,456
May	2008 2009	924,897 542,282		989,888 702,806	1,914,785 1,245,088	360,519 292,043	528,617 231,610
June	2008 2009	1,036,428 683,958		972,888 836,048	2,009,316 1,520,006	446,989 382,285	594,684 321,255
Rate of change	Jan.-Mar.	-49.4%		-37.1%	-43.3%	-23.7%	-62.5%
	Apr.-Jun.	-40.6%		-25.8%	-33.0%	-18.5%	-55.5%
	Apr.	-47.1%		-33.7%	-40.0%	-23.0%	-64.7%
	May	-41.4%		-29.0%	-35.0%	-19.0%	-56.2%
	Jun.	-34.0%		-14.1%	-24.4%	-14.5%	-46.0%

(Notes) 1.

The above figures are provided by JAMA, except for the figures given for total production volume outside Japan by the eight companies.

2.

The figures given for the total production volume outside Japan by the eight companies are from each company's respective press releases, and exclude truck production by four companies: Isuzu, Hino, Nissan Diesel, and Mitsubishi Fuso. Since the figures given for half-year and quarterly totals in the lower rows are based on monthly preliminary figures, they don't match the total annual figures given by each auto manufacturer.

 

 

Between April-June 2009, Honda, Nissan, and Suzuki each increased their production volumes in Asia over the same period in 2008

 

  In the April-June period of 2009, eight Japanese passenger car manufacturers' production volume decreased by a total of 1,852,000 units, or a 32.2% drop over the same period in 2008. A breakdown of the decrease shows that there was a drop in production volume in Japan by 1,074,000 units (down 39.2%) and a drop outside Japan by 778,000 units (down 25.8%). The total number of units produced between April and June by these eight companies amounted to 3,898,000 units, which is less than the 5,750,000 produced in the April-June period of 2008.

  Although the business environment still remains very volatile, it has improved somewhat if you compare what the figures were for the first quarter (January-March) 2009. Between January and March, production volume fell by a total of 2,616,000 units (1,482,000 in Japan and 1,134,000 outside Japan). Taking a look at the April - June 2009 production volume, we found that the following companies reported same-period increases in certain regions compared to 2008 figures: Honda's production volume in China and other regions in Asia, Nissan's production volume in China, Suzuki's production volume in Asia, and Mitsubishi Motors' production volume in Europe and in other regions.

  In addition, Honda resumed production in the UK in June 2009, after it halted production between February-May; and Mitsubishi Motors restarted production in Europe in May, after it halted production in March and April.

 

Japanese auto manufacturers' production volume, as announced by each auto manufacturer
(Notes) 1.	The figures are based on each auto manufacturer's press releases, except for those of Daihatsu and Hino, which are based on announcements made by Toyota. The figures for Isuzu, Nissan Diesel, and Mitsubishi Fuso are based on JAMA statistics.
2.	Since the quarterly figures are based on monthly preliminary figures for the three months, they don't match the total annual figures given by each auto manufacturer.
3.	The production volume given for Japan represents finished vehicles plus CKD, i.e., actual off-the-assembly-line figures. Production volume outside Japan represents, in principle, the volume of vehicles produced by each maker under its own brand, i.e., actual off-the-assembly-line figures (excluding CKDs)
4.	Figures for production volume by region for Toyota (highlighted in light blue) include the combined production volume of Daihatsu and Hino, and are given as reference, with approximate figures for Central/South America, Oceania, and Africa. Those figures do not match the figures highlighted in green for Domestic, Overseas and Total.
5.	Figures for production volume by region for Suzuki (highlighted in blue) include combined production volume and are given for reference and include vehicles produced on an OEM basis. Those figures do not match the figures highlighted in green for Domestic, Overseas and Total.
(units)

		2007	2008	Oct.-Dec. 2007	Jan.-Mar. 2008	Apr.-Jun. 2008	Jul.-Sep. 2008	Oct.-Dec. 2008	Jan.-Mar. 2009	Apr.-Jun. 2009
Toyota	Domestic	4,226,137	4,012,388	1,133,290	1,130,828	1,027,832	979,467	874,261	511,697	589,324
	Overseas	4,308,553	4,198,430	1,129,054	1,140,405	1,164,543	997,531	894,417	653,043	784,963
	Japan	5,119,631	4,911,861	1,358,519	1,372,126	1,252,936	1,197,909	1,088,890	715,249	761,954
	North America	1,274,518	1,092,049	300,322	321,469	325,634	236,766	208,180	148,545	201,415
	Europe	701,110	580,440	182,684	187,035	168,095	126,483	98,827	88,107	92,691
	Asia	886,904	1,034,376	240,854	263,392	262,388	258,734	249,862	175,822	191,745
	Central and South America	152,000	152,000	40,000	31,000	40,000	44,000	37,000	30,000	34,000
	Oceania	149,000	140,000	39,000	33,000	38,000	38,000	31,000	22,000	19,000
	Africa	145,000	181,000	40,000	43,000	50,000	50,000	38,000	30,000	19,000
	Total	8,427,351	8,091,796	2,201,137	2,251,299	2,137,191	1,951,964	1,751,342	1,210,535	1,319,505
	Total	8,534,690	8,210,808	2,262,344	2,271,233	2,192,375	1,976,998	1,768,678	1,164,740	1,374,287
Honda	Domestic	1,331,844	1,264,387	349,587	309,640	288,877	317,051	348,813	193,614	182,749
	Overseas	2,579,969	2,692,994	675,815	709,220	679,754	681,095	622,902	442,151	501,587
	North America	1,432,731	1,421,427	357,769	379,980	363,536	352,316	325,602	209,579	247,397
	(USA)	1,015,462	987,169	251,536	268,893	249,836	243,375	225,072	139,523	172,174
	Europe	237,783	230,423	66,714	67,402	57,478	52,810	52,733	11,514	5,919
	Asia	778,612	858,537	210,882	215,963	210,293	229,002	203,249	186,277	211,515
	(China)	463,998	517,571	136,143	127,254	126,323	141,070	122,894	121,759	143,036
	Others	130,843	182,607	40,450	45,875	48,447	46,967	41,318	34,781	36,756
	Total	3,911,813	3,957,381	1,025,402	1,018,860	968,631	998,146	971,715	635,765	684,336
Nissan	Domestic	1,179,080	1,293,082	350,858	395,867	317,943	331,855	247,417	153,272	191,619
	Overseas	2,252,318	2,101,748	599,927	555,011	564,423	552,811	429,550	321,073	433,796
	USA	703,662	545,057	191,023	167,460	146,168	140,953	90,476	69,890	76,783
	Mexico	496,713	450,968	122,307	95,163	126,172	123,570	106,063	64,903	87,147
	UK	353,718	386,555	93,877	103,817	104,933	106,922	70,883	58,359	84,870
	Spain	222,914	157,237	56,971	56,998	50,942	36,608	12,668	8,272	15,026
	China	295,865	378,977	77,230	82,310	91,335	99,417	106,008	90,608	132,004
	Others	179,446	182,954	58,519	49,263	44,873	45,341	43,452	29,041	37,966
	Total	3,431,398	3,394,830	950,785	950,878	882,366	884,666	676,967	474,345	625,415
Suzuki	Domestic	1,218,297	1,218,235	327,741	311,902	309,504	300,679	296,150	232,752	209,680
	Overseas	1,377,882	1,405,553	352,300	393,165	373,223	337,766	300,224	342,625	353,907
	Japan	1,218,000	1,217,000	328,000	311,000	310,000	300,000	296,000	233,000	210,000
	Europe	239,000	285,000	59,000	72,000	79,000	74,000	60,000	47,000	46,000
	North America	31,000	13,000	7,000	6,000	4,000	2,000	1,000	0	0
	Asia	1,108,000	1,109,000	286,000	316,000	290,000	261,000	242,000	295,000	308,000
	Total	2,597,000	2,624,000	680,000	705,000	683,000	638,000	598,000	575,000	564,000
	Total	2,596,179	2,623,788	680,041	705,067	682,727	638,445	596,374	575,377	563,587
Mazda	Domestic	995,511	1,078,690	281,211	293,507	272,533	287,267	225,062	114,265	165,793
	Overseas	291,297	270,584	76,271	82,992	59,853	64,505	64,236	46,450	56,422
	Total	1,286,808	1,349,274	357,482	376,499	332,386	352,133	289,298	160,715	222,215
Mitsubishi Motors	Domestic	846,083	841,949	230,721	253,089	195,756	214,845	178,259	80,834	80,546
	Overseas	565,892	459,424	138,914	129,232	113,086	111,129	105,977	76,448	68,436
	Asia	368,422	300,699	88,914	79,117	76,075	74,181	71,326	54,285	33,688
	North America	78,739	58,963	17,675	19,297	13,021	14,793	11,852	4,211	2,612
	Europe	66,670	53,661	15,008	18,275	11,995	9,988	13,403	11,934	12,274
	Others	52,061	46,101	17,317	12,543	11,995	12,167	9,396	6,018	19,862
	Total	1,411,975	1,301,373	369,635	382,321	308,842	325,974	284,236	157,282	148,982
Daihatsu	Domestic	786,601	793,257	196,841	213,211	197,117	189,204	192,580	190,746	159,421
	Overseas	69,570	114,945	19,009	24,563	30,036	32,676	27,670	27,055	25,054
	Total	856,171	908,202	215,850	237,774	227,153	221,880	220,250	217,801	184,475
Fuji Heavy Industries	Domestic	475,850	524,916	119,468	133,216	128,168	139,648	123,884	82,266	84,507
	Overseas	109,178	91,581	29,389	24,315	27,413	21,822	17,937	16,003	10,271
	Total	585,028	616,497	148,857	157,531	155,581	161,470	141,821	98,269	94,778
8 company total	Domestic	11,059,403	11,026,904	2,989,717	3,041,260	2,737,730	2,760,016	2,486,426	1,559,446	1,663,639
	Overseas	11,554,659	11,335,259	3,020,679	3,058,903	3,012,331	2,799,335	2,462,913	1,924,848	2,234,436
	Total	22,614,062	22,362,163	6,010,396	6,100,163	5,750,061	5,559,712	4,949,339	3,484,294	3,898,075
Isuzu	Domestic	240,287	253,913	59,024	65,017	67,276	73,547	48,073	23,628	19,625
Hino	Domestic	106,893	106,216	28,388	28,087	27,987	29,238	20,904	12,806	13,209
Mitsubishi Fuso	Domestic	141,280	126,184	38,602	31,568	30,822	36,658	27,136	10,391	10,690
Nissan Diesel	Domestic	45,993	47,960	12,465	13,200	12,705	13,377	8,678	3,570	4,373
12 company total	Domestic	11,593,856	11,561,177	3,128,196	3,179,132	2,876,520	2,912,836	2,591,217	1,609,841	1,711,536

Japanese auto manufacturers' production volume outside Japan by region (JAMA statistics) (units)   Asia Middle East Europe North America Central and South America Africa Oceania Total EU Total USA Total 2005 3,964,209 10,500 1,369,556 1,545,355 3,383,277 4,080,713 645,074 225,725 134,581 10,606,157 2006 4,129,856 11,400 1,509,402 1,702,836 3,281,073 4,001,639 745,827 259,050 121,635 10,972,243 2007 4,523,751 3,342 1,789,875 1,976,407 3,324,326 4,049,068 895,099 252,384 159,710 11,859,761 2008 Rate of change 4,877,074 7.8% 0 - 1,693,151 -5.4% 1,876,101 -5.1% 2,893,466 -13.0% 3,576,246 -11.7% 920,738 2.9% 257,528 2.0% 143,741 -10.0% 11,651,428 -1.8% 2007.10-12 2008.10-12 Rate of change 1,236,949 1,141,059 -7.8% 0 0 - 464,324 319,227 -31.2% 515,797 351,016 -31.9% 838,283 584,107 -30.3% 1,009,560 739,113 -26.8% 235,981 214,031 -9.3% 68,192 53,878 -21.0% 41,172 31,496 -23.5% 3,107,651 2,530,593 -18.6% 2008.1-3 2009.1-3 Rate of change 1,268,259 996,309 -21.4% 0 0 - 495,000 238,120 -51.9% 552,925 258,679 -53.2% 841,833 368,995 -56.2% 1,012,903 482,918 -52.3% 206,536 161,711 -21.7% 62,016 44,473 -28.3% 35,769 22,350 -37.5% 3,138,408 1,966,440 -37.3% Source: JAMA News release 2009.7.30, etc. (Notes) 1. Mexico is included under Central/South America. Turkey is included in Europe. 2. The vehicles counted in the figures are as follows: those until 2006 are, in principle, Japanese brand vehicles based on the volume of exported vehicle parts used to assemble vehicles outside Japan; those for 2007 and after are the number of vehicles actually leaving the assembly lines of plants outside Japan. "Vehicles" means those sold under each maker's own, respective brand, regardless of whether the vehicles were manufactured at the maker's own plants, joint-venture companies, or plants in which the companies had invested financial interests. Vehicles produced by other companies on an OEM basis, and CKD/SKD assembled vehicles, are not included.

(Reference Material) FY2009 production volume forecasts by Toyota, Suzuki, Nissan, Mazda, and Fuji Heavy Industries

(units)

	Toyota (non-consolidated)			Suzuki (consolidated production volume)
	Japan	Overseas	Total	Japan	Europe	North America	Other	Total
2007JFY	4,264,000	4,424,000	8,688,000	1,219,000	252,000	28,000	1,138,000	2,637,000
2008JFY	3,393,000	3,710,000	7,103,000	1,139,000	260,000	7,000	1,088,000	2,494,000
2009JFY Rate of change	2,940,000 (453,000)	3,360,000 (350,000)	6,300,000 (803,000)	953,000 (186,000)	188,000 (72,000)	0 (7,000)	1,160,000 72,000	2,301,000 (193,000)

Sources: The figures above are based on the quarterly results for April-June 2009 that were released by Toyota and Suzuki.
(Note)	The figures for FY2009 are based on forecasts made by each auto manufacturer. Toyota revised upward its forecast for vehicle sales in Japan for FY2009 by 100,000 units, to 2.02 million from its initial figure of 1.92 million. However, it has not changed the forecast for total production volume.

	Nissan (Global production volume)					Mazda	Fuji Heavy Ind. (consolidated production volume)
	Japan	North America	Europe	Other	Total	Japan	Japan	Overseas	Total
2007JFY	1,263,000	1,151,000	594,000	650,000	3,658,000	1,047,000	490,000	109,000	599,000
2008JFY	1,050,000	868,000	450,000	716,000	3,084,000	899,000	474,000	92,000	566,000
2009JFY Rate of change	953,000 (97,000)	792,000 (76,000)	374,000 (76,000)	831,000 115,000	2,950,000 (134,000)	764,000 (135,000)	404,000 (70,000)	85,000 (7,000)	490,000 (76,000)

Sources:	The figures for Mazda and Fuji Heavy Industries are based on materials given at the time they released their April-June 2009 financial results. The figures for Nissan are based on materials given on May 12, 2009, when the time the company released its FY2008 financial results.
(Note)	The figures for FY2009 are based on the forecasts given by each auto manufacturer. Mazda's production in Japan is on a consolidated basis. Nissan's figures for North America include Mexico. Nissan's global production volume includes vehicles produced at companies that Nissan accounts for under the equity method of accounting.

 

 

Vehicle exports from Japan continue to remain at extremely low levels, down 55.5% (or 948,000 units) between April-June 2009 compared to same-period 2008 figures

 

  Vehicle exports from Japan continue to remain at extremely low levels. Export volume for the January - March period was down 62.5% (or 1,124,000 units), and between the April-June period, it was down 55.5% (or 948,000 units) compared to same-period 2008 figures.

  As a note, the following are forecasts given by some automakers on their FY2009 expected volume of exports. Toyota forecasts that its export volume will decline by 479,000 units, so it expects to export a total of 1.66 million, which is a drop of 22.4% in FY2009. Honda estimates that it will export 350,000 units, which is 272,000 less than it exported in FY2008, or a 43.7% drop. Suzuki expects exports will decrease by 140,000 units, only reaching a total of 191,000, which is a 42.3% drop.

  The FY2009 export forecasts for these same three auto manufacturers hasn't changed from the figures they initially announced in May 2009, when they released their FY2008 financial results. In fact, Toyota and Suzuki have kept their initial forecasts intact when releasing their April - June 2009 quarterly results; while Honda didn't mention anything about its export forecast when it released its April-June 2009 financial results.

 

Exports from Japan by auto manufacturer and by destination, as released by each auto manufacturer
(Notes) 1.	The figures are based on each auto manufacturer's press releases, except for those of Daihatsu and Hino, which are based on announcements made by Toyota. The figures for Isuzu, Nissan Diesel, and Mitsubishi Fuso are based on JAMA statistics.
2.	Since the quarterly figures are based on monthly preliminary figures for the three months, they don't match the total annual figures given by each auto manufacturer.
3.	Toyota's figures for each region are approximate figures. The "Total" includes figures for "Other Regions".
(units)

		2007	2008	Oct.-Dec. 2007	Jan.-Mar. 2008	Apr.-Jun. 2008	Jul.-Sep. 2008	Oct.-Dec. 2008	Jan.-Mar. 2009	Apr.-Jun. 2009
Toyota	North America	1,244,100	1,124,200	350,000	321,000	310,000	273,000	268,000	77,000	131,000
	Europe	441,500	420,300	103,000	116,000	117,000	108,000	80,000	46,000	58,000
	Asia	151,200	169,100	48,000	45,000	48,000	44,000	32,000	17,000	31,000
	Central and South America	178,900	146,400	33,000	25,000	26,000	25,000	22,000	6,000	5,000
	Oceania	175,200	184,200	49,000	52,000	51,000	44,000	38,000	27,000	34,000
	Africa	147,000	148,700	37,000	33,000	35,000	32,000	41,000	17,000	10,000
	Middle East	328,300	393,400	117,000	98,000	76,000	110,000	110,000	51,000	36,000
	Total	2,666,140	2,586,338	738,399	690,452	665,398	637,728	592,760	243,626	306,787
Honda	North America	414,227	346,975	106,377	98,505	94,449	73,890	80,131	47,481	33,935
	(USA)	390,486	323,751	103,318	94,258	89,781	67,249	72,463	41,885	31,829
	Europe	118,602	136,663	27,364	18,131	29,324	42,865	46,343	23,476	19,194
	Asia	29,578	37,887	9,538	11,469	9,219	9,843	7,356	3,730	1,789
	Others	144,642	128,783	39,518	33,419	26,534	34,570	34,260	10,090	5,141
	Total	707,049	650,308	182,797	161,524	159,526	161,168	168,090	84,777	60,059
Nissan	North America	258,917	303,413	102,881	94,813	77,631	79,407	51,562	23,769	55,905
	Europe	80,289	96,486	20,736	22,524	25,167	34,196	14,599	3,717	9,721
	Others	306,934	376,839	104,682	104,468	83,023	101,033	88,315	42,067	31,756
	Total	646,140	776,738	228,299	221,805	185,821	214,636	154,476	69,553	97,562
Suzuki		406,838	393,101	106,183	108,531	104,303	110,008	70,259	51,900	43,639
Mazda	North America	289,072	271,787	74,862	71,458	76,382	69,737	54,210	35,588	39,139
	Europe	300,196	352,931	95,411	85,608	96,315	95,570	75,438	17,139	54,290
	Oceania	68,250	78,734	19,381	21,132	19,412	20,958	17,232	12,966	19,462
	Others	145,458	178,066	44,143	41,889	47,196	46,745	42,236	15,447	17,063
	Total	802,976	881,518	233,797	220,087	239,305	233,010	189,116	81,140	129,954
Mitsubishi Motors	Asia	40,323	41,587	12,278	12,577	12,438	8,710	7,862	4,411	5,844
	North America	66,334	64,785	13,637	22,539	12,668	13,765	15,813	6,103	6,108
	Europe	221,308	264,791	51,693	84,911	69,619	66,039	44,204	14,858	4,988
	Others	244,347	233,678	69,592	65,136	55,147	60,664	52,749	18,041	18,875
	Total	572,312	604,841	147,200	185,163	149,872	149,178	120,628	43,413	35,815
Daihatsu		153,742	129,759	40,615	39,417	38,357	31,639	22,881	8,455	12,160
Fuji Heavy industries		250,514	326,492	60,271	80,830	74,487	88,779	83,354	52,851	46,492
8 company total		6,205,711	6,349,095	1,737,561	1,707,809	1,617,069	1,626,146	1,401,564	635,715	732,468
Isuzu		168,638	194,233	46,160	47,077	46,234	56,891	44,031	20,907	10,978
Hino		58,780	67,016	16,316	17,078	17,118	18,194	14,626	8,764	8,614
Nissan Diesel		26,019	26,784	6,866	6,621	7,463	7,324	5,376	1,650	1,788
Mitsubishi Fuso		90,694	89,963	26,911	22,071	20,755	23,276	23,861	7,140	5,440
12 company total		6,549,842	6,727,091	1,833,814	1,800,656	1,708,639	1,731,831	1,489,458	674,176	759,288

 

Forecasts for FY2009 export volume from Japan by Toyota, Honda, and Suzuki

(units)

 

	Toyota								Honda	Suzuki
	North America	Europe	Asia	Central and South America	Oceania	Africa	Middle East	Total
2007JFY	1,304,000	427,000	164,000	119,000	187,000	142,000	359,000	2,708,000	758,000	415,000
2008JFY	928,000	351,000	141,000	79,000	160,000	125,000	347,000	2,139,000	622,000	331,000
2009JFY Rate of change	690,000 (238,000)	340,000 (11,000)	120,000 (21,000)	40,000 (39,000)	150,000 (10,000)	80,000 (45,000)	240,000 (107,000)	1,660,000 (479,000)	350,000 (272,000)	191,000 (140,000)

 

(Note)

The figures for FY2009 are based on forecasts made by each auto manufacturer. Figures for Toyota and Suzuki are based on the figures they provided at the time they released their financial results for the April-June 2009 period. Figures for Honda are those the company provided at the time it released its FY2008 financial results.

 

 

Number of units exported from Japan by destination (JAMA statistics)

(units)

 

		Asia	Middle East	Europe	North America	Central America	South America	Africa	Oceania	Total
2005		420,067	519,594	1,178,197	1,854,438	221,732	191,527	209,548	447,922	5,053,061
2006		381,561	590,341	1,305,861	2,488,373	247,104	232,220	269,956	441,912	5,966,672
2007		440,920	811,887	1,497,800	2,455,099	289,720	280,225	330,744	434,268	6,549,940
2008 Rate of change		525,081 19.1%	952,749 17.3%	1,589,054 6.1%	2,318,254 -5.6%	258,978 -10.6%	258,922 -7.6%	351,762 6.4%	460,561 6.1%	6,727,091 2.7%
Oct.- Dec.	2007 2008	132,538 108,994	275,462 256,327	379,420 317,835	672,301 502,682	88,409 63,000	71,042 51,695	90,782 91,407	124,577 94,289	1,836,729 1,489,458
	Rate of change	-17.8%	-6.9%	-16.2%	-25.2%	-28.7%	-27.2%	0.7%	-24.3%	-18.9%
Jan.- Mar.	2008 2009	140,180 58,763	242,660 102,437	418,220 137,930	647,226 218,262	69,731 24,470	65,925 24,855	84,555 40,256	127,571 64,216	1,798,445 674,167
	Rate of change	-58.1%	-57.8%	-67.0%	-66.3%	-64.9%	-62.3%	-52.4%	-49.7%	-62.5%
Apr.- Jun.	2008 2009	143,594 83,446	191,545 57,760	418,183 171,454	608,061 297,454	62,386 19,392	68,217 18,021	89,938 25,527	122,708 84,584	1,707,360 759,321
	Rate of change	-41.9%	-69.8%	-59.0%	-51.1%	-68.9%	-73.6%	-71.6%	-31.1%	-55.5%

 

Source: JAMA News release 2009.7.30, etc.
(Note) The total includes "Other Exports".

 

Toyota and Honda have revised upward their FY2009 sales volume forecast by 100,000 and 85,000, respectively

 

  In the April-June 2009 period, the consolidated sales volume of 10 Japanese auto manufacturers (excluding Mitsubishi Fuso and Nissan Diesel) decreased by 1,772,000 units compared to the same period a year earlier. This is a 32.3% drop. Their combined sales volume will be 3,707,000 units, in contrast to the 5,478,000 sold in the April-June 2008 period. Their combined gross revenue fell by 37.3%. They accumulated a combined operating loss of 243.1 billion yen, which is a drastic drop in financial performance compared to the 801.6 billion yen operating profit they recorded for April-June 2008.

  Amid the harsh business environment, their results for the April - June period have somewhat improved, when compared to those posted in the January-March period of 2009. During the first quarter of 2009, the volume of units sold decreased by 2,187,000 and combined gross sales by 44.5%. This resulted in a combined operating loss of 1 trillion 298 billion yen. In addition, Toyota and Honda, which recently are seeing strong sales of eco-friendly cars, revised their FY2009 unit sales forecast upward; Toyota by 100,000 and Honda by 85,000. This revision, however, is for their sales forecasts in Japan, as they have not revised their sales forecasts for outside Japan.

 

Ten Japanese auto manufacturers' consolidated sales volume of vehicles

(1,000 units)

		2007 JFY	2008 JFY	2009JFY Plan		Oct.-Dec.		Jan.-Mar.		Apr.-Jun.
				Original plan	Revised plan	2007	2008	2008	2009	2008	2009
Sales of four wheel vehicles	Toyota	8,913	7,567	6,500	6,600	2,281	1,838	2,331	1,479	2,187	1,401
	Honda	3,925	3,517	3,210	3,295	991	940	1,051	680	962	766
	Nissan	3,698	3,138	2,807		928	689	1,092	676	845	593
	Suzuki	2,406	2,306	2,190		592	511	666	611	635	493
	Mazda	1,240	1,116	890		301	243	364	225	318	181
	Mitsubishi Motors	1,337	1,011	836		319	254	357	173	287	129
	Daihatsu	945	945	840		228	229	269	234	245	190
	Fuji Heavy industries	597	555	508		145	141	180	132	128	100
	Isuzu	509	401	275		110	104	178	54	117	44
	Hino	112	99	79		28	23	32	19	27	16
	10 companies total	22,624	19,611	17,216	17,401	5,668	4,720	6,219	4,031	5,478	3,707
Domestic sales of four wheel vehicles	Toyota	2,188	1,945	1,920	2,020	541	465	641	464	513	407
	Honda	615	556	555	635	145	135	191	141	128	128
	Nissan	684	576	576		142	116	225	157	146	109
	Suzuki	673	665	655		152	153	206	192	184	150
	Mazda	257	220	200		53	45	79	55	56	42
	Mitsubishi Motors	214	164	193		52	40	67	43	35	30
	Daihatsu	571	587	550		129	140	174	162	145	127
	Fuji Heavy industries	209	179	160		45	37	65	48	43	33
	Isuzu	74	58	49		16	12	20	13	14	7
	Hino	46	35	29		11	8	13	7	9	4
	10 companies total	4,914	4,363	4,308	4,488	1,145	1,003	1,494	1,113	1,120	907
Overseas sales of four wheel vehicles	Toyota	6,725	5,622	4,580		1,740	1,373	1,690	1,015	1,674	994
	Honda	3,310	2,961	2,655		846	805	860	539	834	638
	Nissan	3,013	2,562	2,231		787	573	867	520	699	483
	Suzuki	1,732	1,641	1,535		440	358	459	419	450	343
	Mazda	983	896	690		248	198	285	170	262	139
	Mitsubishi Motors	1,123	847	643		267	214	290	130	252	99
	Daihatsu	374	358	290		100	90	95	72	99	64
	Fuji Heavy industries	388	377	348		100	104	115	84	85	67
	Isuzu	435	343	226		94	92	157	41	103	37
	Hino	66	64	50		17	16	19	11	19	12
	10 companies total	17,709	15,248	12,908		4,522	3,717	4,724	2,918	4,358	2,800

(Notes) 1.	The 10 companies total does not include Daihatsu and Hino, which are already included in Toyota.
2.	Suzuki's unit sales volume includes only Suzuki brand vehicles; however it includes Chevrolet vehicles in its sales volume in Japan. Its gross sales outside Japan for FY2007 include some estimated figures.
3.	Nissan's FY2009 forecast is calculated by adding the expected increase/decrease in Nissan's planned FY2009 global sales volume to the FY2008 actual sales volume. The global sales volume includes vehicles shipped as assembly parts and assembled at facilities outside Japan that are accounted for under the equity method of accounting.
4.	The FY2007 figure for Isuzu includes consolidated subsidiaries outside Japan, i.e., its eight subsidiaries in the ASEAN region that reported financial results that covered 15 months. If calculated on a 12-month basis, the figure would be 385,000 units.

 

 

Toyota, Honda, and Daihatsu see improved operating prfit/loss forecasts for the first half of FY2009

 

  Toyota and Honda revised their operating profit/loss forecasts for FY2009, announcing that they expect an improvement by 100 billion yen and 60 billion yen, respectively. Toyota announced that it expects its operating loss to improve from the initial 850 billion yen to 750 billion yen. Honda revised its initial forecast on operating profit, indicating an expected improvement from the initial 10 billion yen to 70 billion yen.

  However, since Toyota and Honda revised their forecasts for their FY2009 first half results upward by 200 billion yen and 100 billion yen, respectively, they will fall short of their initial forecasts for their FY2009 second-half results. In addition, Daihatsu revised its operating profit forecast for the first half of 2009 upward from the initial 2 billion yen to 6 billion yen, and yet it has not changed its full financial year forecast of 17 billion yen. All three auto manufactures are taking very cautious approaches to the very volatile business environment.

 

Ten Japanese auto manufacturers' consolidated sales and operating profit/(loss)

(100 millions of Yen)

		2007 JFY	2008 JFY	2009JFY Plan				Jan.-Mar.		Apr.-Jun.
				Full year		1st half		2008	2009	2008	2009
				Original plan	Revised plan	Original plan	Revised plan
Sales	Toyota	262,892	205,296	165,000	168,000	76,000	78,000	65,671	35,363	62,151	38,361
	Honda	120,028	100,112	83,700	82,800	39,500	39,200	30,556	17,839	28,672	20,022
	Nissan	108,242	84,370	69,500				29,896	17,512	23,473	15,148
	Suzuki	35,024	30,049	23,000		11,000		9,237	6,702	9,104	5,771
	Mazda	34,758	25,359	20,300		9,300		9,695	4,480	7,718	4,282
	Mitsubishi Motors	26,821	19,736	15,000		6,000		7,348	3,154	6,101	2,591
	Daihatsu	17,026	16,314	14,000		6,500	6,600	4,823	3,842	4,459	3,557
	Fuji Heavy industries	15,723	14,458	13,200		6,240		4,670	3,391	3,411	2,713
	Isuzu	19,248	14,247	10,800		4,800		6,204	2,246	4,152	1,874
	Hino	13,686	10,695	9,000		3,600		3,658	1,867	3,189	1,655
	10 companies total	622,738	493,626	400,500	402,600			163,277	90,687	144,782	90,763
Operating profit	Toyota	22,704	(4,610)	(8,500)	(7,500)	(6,000)	(4,000)	3,967	(6,825)	4,126	(1,949)
	Honda	9,531	1,896	100	700	(1,100)	(100)	1,688	(2,830)	2,105	252
	Nissan	7,908	(1,379)	(1,000)				2,117	(2,304)	799	116
	Suzuki	1,494	769	100		0		324	104	338	69
	Mazda	1,621	(284)	(500)		(600)		538	(649)	283	(280)
	Mitsubishi Motors	1,086	39	300		(350)		566	(160)	99	(296)
	Daihatsu	652	382	170		20	60	261	61	185	50
	Fuji Heavy industries	457	(58)	(350)		(340)		91	(157)	65	(197)
	Isuzu	1,096	217	(180)		(290)		332	(159)	203	(146)
	Hino	459	(194)	(150)		(250)		87	(150)	74	(188)
	10 companies total	45,897	(3,410)	(10,030)	(8,430)			9,623	(12,980)	8,016	(2,431)
FOREX Rates: Yen to US Dollar		114	101	94	93			106	93	105	97
FOREX Rates: Yen to Euro		162	144	122	123			158	122	162	133

(Notes) 1.	The 10 companies do not include Daihatsu and Hino, which are already included under Toyota.
2.	The currency exchange rate used is a simple average of the rates used by each auto manufacturer. When one auto maker used several rates, then the rates used here is the one the auto maker used for calculating gross revenue.

 

 

Japanese auto manufacturers have returned to profitability in North America and Asia in the April-June 2009 period

 

  When we look at consolidated sales and operating profit based on data for each individual region, we see that under "Other Regions", which includes Asia where the decrease in production volume has been growing smaller, Japanese auto manufacturers have in fact returned to operating at a profit in the April-June 2009 period, after having operated at a loss between January and March.

  In North America, where Japanese auto manufacturers adjusted their inventory levels, they returned to profitability in the April-June 2009 period. Honda posted an operating profit of 7.2 billion yen for the term, compared to posting an operating loss of 107.5 billion yen in the January - March period. Nissan went from a 38.2 billion yen operating loss in the January-March 2009 period, to a 35.2 billion yen profit in the April - June period. Toyota also has improved its operating loss, narrowing down its 177 billion yen loss in the first quarter to 36.4 billion yen in the second quarter of 2009.

 

Seven Japanese auto manufacturers' sales and operating profit by region

(100 millions of Yen)

		External Sales					Operating Profit
		Japan	North America	Europe	Others	Consoli- dated	Japan	North America	Europe	Others	Consoli- dated
2005JFY		166,400	192,074	67,147	70,739	496,359	20,444	12,557	2,141	4,595	39,215
2006JFY		170,449	217,437	86,971	81,270	556,127	21,859	12,985	3,073	4,845	42,471
2007JFY		179,620	221,210	97,127	105,533	603,490	22,192	10,493	3,654	8,268	44,801
2008JFY		160,468	152,687	70,680	95,545	479,379	(6,746)	(3,814)	(1,430)	6,501	(3,626)
Oct.-Dec.	2007 2008	44,662 38,964	56,757 34,489	23,503 14,690	27,631 22,722	152,553 110,865	6,355 (3,941)	3,007 (2,082)	713 (479)	2,375 1,715	12,142 (3,896)
Jan.-Mar.	2008 2009	51,374 34,437	52,573 23,837	25,966 13,133	27,159 17,033	157,073 88,441	4,393 (8,551)	1,069 (3,507)	1,362 (1,668)	1,926 (23)	9,290 (12,821)
Apr.-Jun.	2008 2009	42,539 29,214	48,523 29,326	21,926 12,092	27,642 18,257	140,630 88,889	3,290 (3,304)	1,723 267	465 (132)	2,332 859	7,814 (2,285)

(Notes) 1.	The seven auto manufacturers are Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors, Fuji Heavy Industries, and Suzuki. Daihatsu and Hino are included in Toyota.
2.	The figures are based on consolidated reporting data for each individual region. The regional totals for operating profit and the consolidated totals do not match because the 'Elimination and Corporation' item for making adjustments was omitted.
3.	The total is the simple sums of the figures provided, as no adjustments were made to account for subtle differences in regional make up, which is decided by each auto manufacturer.

 

 

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