Comined sales of over 1,000cc engine vehicles and minivehicles in September totaled 462,192 untis, down 2.1% from a year earlier.
Sales of over 1,000cc-engine class vehicles (so-called “Tourokusha”) in Japan marked the first increase in 13 months. The August sales were 313,70 units, up 1.7% from a year earlier.
In the first seven months of this year, sales of new over 1,000cc engine vehicles totaled 1,966,951 units, down 25.9% year-on-year from last year’s 2,653,546 units.
So far this year, combined sales of over1,000cc engine vehicles and minivehicles totaled 3,084,337 units, down 23.7% from a year earlier.
The number of deregistered vehicles for export purpose (Yushutsu Masshou) totaled 50,971 units in September, a decrease of 0.7% from a year earlier. This was the first month of year-on-year decrease in two months.
The September figure, which is the highest monthly level in this year, also marked a 60.0% decrease compared with the previous month.
Deregistrations of mid- to large-passenger car increased 1.0% to 24,804 units.
Deregistrations of medium- to heavy-duty trucks fell 16.7% to 2,106 untis, while those of light-duty trucks were down 12.9% to 5,694 untis. Used bus deregistrations totaled 310 units, down 20.5% from a year earlier.
Toyota vehicles (26,948 units) took a 52.9% of total deregistered vehicles for the month, 4.6 percentage points smaller than previous month.
So far this year (January through September), deregistered vehicles for exprot purpsoe totaled 708,756 units, up 3.2% from a year earlier.
Auctioned vehicles across Japan in first half of fiscal 2011 (April-September) declined 9.5% from a year earlier to 3,083,580 units.
For the six months, a total of 2,444 auctions was held, 90 auctions fewer than previous year. The March 11 disaster caused the decline in auctions in Japan.
Sold vehicles at auctions declined 0.5% to 1,904,463 units.
Average price of sold vehicles increased 34,000 yen to 530,000 yen. The sum of sold prices rose 6.3% to 1,093.34 billion yen.
The rate of sold vehicles against total auctioned vehicles was relatively high in the beginning part of the period due to shortage of good-conditioned vehicles in the market. The prices of sold vehicles were also rising.
However, the rate of sold vehicles began to fall in recent weeks. Industry watchers forecast that the auctioned prices are expected to fall in towards the year-end period.
