【2021 annual Japanese car sales inventory】In 2021, Japanese brands were also affected by the "lack of core", and sales fell compared with 2020. According to the statistics compiled by the small editor of the car purchase network, the wholesale sales of the Japanese car market in 2021 were 2.5448 million units, which was still lower than the sales volume of 2.6149 million German brand cars. Compared to 2020, Japanese car sales decreased by 135,800 units, down 5.1% year-on-year, slightly lower than the 7.9% decline in joint venture vehicles.
According to the data, among the 14 Japanese sedans with annual sales of more than 50,000 units, only 6 models such as Toyota Camry, Nissan Tianlai, Toyota Asia Dragon, Honda Fit, Unxella and Honda INSPIRE were higher than in 2020, while the sales of the rest were lower than in the same period last year. Among them, Nissan Xuanyi won the first car sales with the sales of 493868 units, down 8.3% year-on-year.
The Corolla and Raling brothers ranked second and third, with sales of 316973 and 220549 units, respectively, down 7.7 percent and 0.8 percent year-over-year, respectively.
Japanese mid-size cars performed well, with the Camry selling 206764 units, up 17.1% year-on-year; the Accord sales 201329 units, down 4.4%; Tianlai sales of 162,010 units, up 33.2%; The Asian Dragon sold 117188 units, up 5.1%; and Honda IMSPIRE sold 56,353 units, a slight increase of 2.1%.
Sales of Civic and Lingpai from Honda fell considerably, of which Civic sales 159026 units, down 35.1% year-on-year, down 86,100 units; And Lingpai sold 44,216 units, down 61.0% year-on-year, down 69,163 units.
Honda's new Fit won the small car sales championship, with annual sales of 96,326 units, up 53.8% year-on-year; Toyota Zhixuan, the 2020 small car sales champion, sold 80,873 units in 2021, down 8.4% year-on-year.
In terms of Mazda brands, Onxella sold 88,774 units, a slight increase of 4.2% year-on-year; Artez sold 19,502 units, down 37.0% year-on-year. Since the withdrawal of FAW Mazda, Artez has not had sales data for many consecutive months, and changan Mazda will produce and sell in the future.