Japanese OEMs produce 4.3M vehicles, up 14.9% globally in Jan.-Feb. 2012 YoY

Japanese production declined 12.8% in 2011 to 8.4M while the ratio of Asian production expands

2012/04/18

Summary

Japanese OEMs produced a total of 21.427 million vehicles worldwide in 2011, down by 6.1% over the previous year. Of the 2011 total, production in Japan, which suffered significantly from the Great East Japan Earthquake, fell by 12.8% over the previous year to 8.397 million units. Overseas production fell by 1.1% over the previous year to 13.03 million units; the percentage of production in Asia has been increasing. Exports from Japan were down by 7.8% over the previous year to 4.464 million units, affected by the appreciation of the yen.

Between January and February 2012, the eight Japanese passenger car manufacturers produced a total of 4.252 million units globally, up significantly by 14.9% year-on-year.

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Production, sales in Japan, and export from Japan by Japanese OEMs

(units)

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Japanese production	10,797,992	11,482,123	11,593,857	11,573,165	7,933,512	9,627,407	8,396,520
Overseas production	10,606,157	10,972,243	11,859,761	11,651,554	10,117,520	13,181,462	13,030,216
Global Production	21,404,149	22,454,366	23,453,618	23,224,719	18,051,032	22,808,869	21,426,736
Sales in Japan	5,852,067	5,739,506	5,353,648	5,082,235	4,609,256	4,956,136	4,210,219
Exports from Japan	5,053,061	5,966,672	6,550,173	6,727,091	3,616,168	4,841,460	4,464,413

Sources: JAMA News Release and OEMs' press releases
(Note) The 2011 overseas production does not include production by the four commercial vehicle manufacturers between October and December for that year (about several tens of thousands units).

(Reference) Eight OEMs' production between January and February 2012

(units)

	Japanese production		Overseas production		Global Production Total
	Jan.-Feb. 2011	Jan.-Feb. 2012	Jan.-Feb. 2011	Jan.-Feb. 2012	Jan.-Feb. 2011	Jan.-Feb. 2012
Toyota	517,601	641,845	731,242	884,430	1,248,843	1,526,275
Nissan	175,283	207,890	549,988	631,514	725,271	839,404
Honda	139,516	214,393	436,404	469,282	575,920	683,675
Suzuki	157,675	172,985	330,848	339,266	488,523	512,251
Mazda	139,269	139,789	70,219	59,442	209,488	199,231
Mitsubishi	121,671	95,659	90,335	90,195	212,006	185,854
Daihatsu	105,156	137,221	30,788	37,506	135,944	174,727
Subaru	76,939	95,859	29,318	34,875	106,257	130,734
8 OEM total	1,433,110	1,705,641	2,269,142	2,546,510	3,702,252	4,252,151
	Sales in Japan		Export
	Jan.-Feb. 2011	Jan.-Feb. 2012	Jan.-Feb. 2011	Jan.-Feb. 2012
Toyota	205,945	296,759	288,490	318,120
Nissan	101,288	125,092	102,169	122,233
Honda	87,196	141,185	48,662	62,441
Suzuki	97,126	108,331	42,089	35,076
Mazda	32,627	36,834	123,543	113,325
Mitsubishi	24,193	26,627	84,153	65,863
Daihatsu	93,538	118,251	3,896	2,692
Subaru	26,428	31,850	60,386	63,600
8 OEM total	668,341	884,929	753,388	783,350