【March 2022 Japanese car sales ranking】Although sales have declined year-on-year, the market performance of Japanese cars is quite good compared with Korean, American and German cars. According to the statistics compiled by the editors of the car purchase network, the wholesale sales of the Japanese car market in March 2022 were 383,400 units, 65,300 units ahead of the German car. Sales decreased by 18,700 units, down 4.7% year-on-year, compared to 402,100 units in the same period last year, and sales increased by 52,400 units, up 15.8% year-on-year, compared to 402,100 units in the same period last year.
Judging from the sales of major Japanese brands in March, the decline in sales belongs to Dongfeng Nissan, whose sales volume is only 57,010 units, down 26.9% year-on-year, and sales are reduced by 20,997 units. Nissan Xuanyi remains the top Japanese car sales champion, but it fell 31.6% year-on-year to 27,373 units.
Nissan Tianlai sold 15,471 vehicles in March, ranking ninth, although not as good as the Sales of Camry and Accord, but it is a very good sales level for Tianlai. Nissan Qashqai sales were poor, with only 6,123 units sold in March, down 50.8% year-on-year. It is worth mentioning that Nissan X-Trail's sales in March were as low as 1,034 vehicles, down 88.6% year-on-year.
Toyota Camry and Corolla ranked second and third, with sales of 27,211 and 25,173 units, respectively. Among them, Camry's sales increased by 78.9% year-on-year, and Corolla's sales fell by 27.9% year-on-year.
Toyota Ralink, Toyota Veranda and Toyota RAV4 all sold more than 10,000 vehicles, of which Ralink sold 19,977 vehicles, ranking sixth; Veranda sold 13,798 vehicles, ranking tenth; Toyota RAV4 sold 10,502 vehicles, down 52.2% year-on-year.
In addition, the Asian Dragon sold 9,793 units and the Highlander sold 7,138 units.
Last year, Toyota launched a number of new models, including Fenglanda, Xena, Asiatic Lion, Crown Land Release, Toyota Toyota Wesa, Toyota Lingfang, etc., and all achieved good sales performance, which promoted the overall sales growth of Toyota brand cars. In March this year, toyota brand sales reached 166941 vehicles, up 10.1% year-on-year.
Honda brand sales remained stable overall, with total sales of 146932 units in March, a slight increase of 1.0% year-on-year. Among them, Honda CR-V sold 24360 vehicles, ranking third, although not as good as the same period last year, but also higher than last year's average sales level.
Honda Accord, Civic, Binzhi and other models sales are higher than the same period last year, of which Accord sales of 20667 vehicles, ranking fifth; Civic sales of 17456 vehicles, ranking seventh, an increase of 44.3%; Binzhi sales of 16623 vehicles, ranking eighth, a slight increase of 1.4% year-on-year.
In addition, Honda XR-V and Honda Haoying sold more than 10,000 units, 12,819 units and 12,057 units respectively, but fell by 32.1% and 31.9% year-on-year, respectively, and the performance was not satisfactory.
As a sister model of the Civic, the Honda model sold 6868 units; the mid-term redesign of the Honda Yingshipai sold 6208 vehicles; the Honda Crown Road sold 5376 vehicles; and the new Fit sold 5118 vehicles, ranking only 25th.
Due to the delisting of FAW Mazda, Mazda brand sales fell sharply, with sales of only 8,309 units in March, down 57.3% year-on-year. Among them, the Mazda 3 Axela sold 5480 units, down 29.1% year-on-year; the Mazda CX-5 sold 1985 units, an increase of 7.2% year-on-year.
Mitsubishi brand sales continued to decline, with all-brand sales in March being only 2,002 units, down 66.6% year-on-year. Among them, the most popular consumer sales of Outlander were only 1633 vehicles, down 63.6% year-on-year. The sales of Mitsubishi Jinxuan and Yige were only 178 and 86 vehicles, respectively.