Data on Japan's motor industry revealed

ERJ staff report (DS)

Tokyo -- Japan's Automobile Manufacturer's Association (JAMA) has released its annual report for 2011. The 67-page document contains a wealth of data on the Japanese motor vehicle market relating to 2010 and prior years. A series of charts give 10-year time-series data.

In 2010 motor vehicle production in Japan increased for the first time in three years, totalling 9.63 million units, up

21.4percent over the previous year. Passenger car production grew 21.1 percent to 8.31million units. Within that category,

standard car production surged 40.1 percent to a total of 4.85 million units, small car production grew 0.6 percent to 2.16 million

units, and minicar production rose 3.8 percent to 1.31 million units. Truck and bus production also showed an increase

over 2009, growing 22.8 percent to 1.21 million units and 26.0 percent to 109,000 units, respectively.

Passenger car and commercial vehicle demand in Japan in 2010 totalled 4.96 million units, an increase of 7.5 percent over

the previous year. Total passenger car sales grew 7.4 percent to 4.21 million units, with the standard car segment surging

22.4 percent to 1.42 million units, small cars rising 1.9 percent to 1.51 million units, and minicars climbing 0.1 percent to 1.29 million

units. Also, sales of trucks and buses increased 8.6 percent and 1.6 percent from 2009, to 731,000 and 13,000 units respectively.

At the end of December 2010, motor vehicles in use in Japan (excluding motorcycles) totalled 75.4 million units,

a level virtually unchanged from the previous year. Passenger cars in use increased 0.6% to 58.3 million units, with

standard and minicars growing 1.2 percent and 3.3 percent to 16.9 million and 18.0 million units respectively, but small cars

dropping 1.9% to 23.5 million units. Meanwhile, trucks in use slipped 1.8 percent from 2009 to 15.3 million units and

buses in use decreased 0.5 percent to 227,000 units. At the end of March 2010, the average service life of motor vehicles in

Japan was 12.70 years for passenger cars, 12.72 years for trucks, and 16.59 years for buses.

The document notes that in cars produced in 2009, 1.9 percent of vehicles had a tyre pressure monitoring system fitted as standard.

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