Toyota's vice grip on the Japanese car market remains as tight as ever, as latest data released by the Japan Automobile Dealers' Association (JADA) shows the manufacturer occupying the top 6 sales figures from January to June 2021.
Toyota's top 6 best-selling cars in the first half of the year (1H 2021) totals 403,482 units, commanding a 36.6% market share of the 1.1 million cars sold (JADA's top 50 list) in the same timeframe.
Catalysts to the Aichi-based manufacturer's big numbers are the Toyota Yaris, Roomy, Alphard, Corolla, Harrier, and Raize, the latter of which provided the base for our Perodua Ativa.
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Breaking up what could have been Toyota's top 10 streak is Nissan and Honda, with their Note and Freed sitting on the 7th and 9th rungs respectively.
Top 10 car sales in Japan, 1H 2021 | |
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Model | Units sold |
Toyota Yaris (incl. Yaris Cross, GR Yaris) | 119,112 |
Toyota Roomy | 77,492 |
Toyota Alphard | 56,778 |
Toyota Corolla | 53,864 |
Toyota Harrier | 48,271 |
Toyota Raize | 47,965 |
Nissan Note | 46,879 |
Toyota Voxy | 41,101 |
Honda Freed | 35,551 |
Toyota Sienta | 33,753 |
Adding up the rest of the Toyota models completing JADA's top 50 list, Toyota sold 662,470 cars within the 6 months. This is better than pre-pandemic levels, surpassing 656,256 units sold in H1 2019.
That's an indicator that Japan's car sales market is recovering too, as the 1.1 million cars sold in the first half of this year is just behind the 1.2 million cars sold in January to June 2019.
Closer to home, both Toyota and Honda have new models lined up for Malaysia. These include the Toyota Camry facelift, all-new Toyota GR86, Honda City Hatchback and Honda Odyssey facelift. Of course, when exactly they make their local debuts is heavily contingent on improvement of the Covid-19 situation here.
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