Japan carmakers post record sales
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Two of Japan’s top automakers yesterday reported record China sales last year, after an anti-Japanese consumer boycott depressed demand in the world’s largest vehicle market in 2012.
Toyota said it sold 917,500 vehicles in China last year, its best ever. The figure was up 9.2 percent from 2012, when a dispute over islands in the East China Sea sent relations between China and Japan plummeting.
The latest figures from Toyota, the world’s biggest automaker, beat an earlier target of at least 900,000 units, and the company is now looking to sell more than 1.1 million vehicles in China this year.
Honda, Japan’s No. 3 automaker, said its China sales soared 26 percent last year to a record 757,021 units.
“Existing model changes as well as introducing new models helped boost sales,” a company spokesman said.
Nissan, which counts on China for about one-quarter of its sales, did not release comparable figures yesterday.
But Japan’s No. 2 car company previously said its January-to-November China sales jumped 13.1 percent from a year earlier to 1.13 million units.
Nissan, which has three plants in China with a local partner, had earlier said it expects to sell about 1.27 million vehicles in the country in 2013.
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