New car sales in August decreased by 15% year-on-year. Corona impact continued new demand.
Last month new car sales were down 15% compared to the same month last year.
The effects of the new coronavirus continue, but there is a need to buy a new car in order to avoid commuters by public transportation and to commute by car, and the issue is how much demand will recover in the future.
According to announcements from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association, etc., 326,436 new cars were sold in Japan last month, a decrease of 15.9% compared to the same month last year.
Among them, sales of regular cars, small cars and trucks were 197,832 units, a decrease of 18.4%, and mini vehicles were 128,604 units, a decrease of 11.8%.
The main factor is that the demand for automobiles, which has fallen sharply due to the impact of the new coronavirus, has not fully recovered, and there has been a reaction from last year when sales of new automobiles increased significantly.
However, compared with the same period of the previous year, the negative range was 44% in May, 22% in June, 13% in July, which expanded somewhat last month, but it is improving in industry groups. I think.
In addition, recently, there is a need to buy a new car in order to avoid commu- nication of public transportation and to commute by car, so the issue is how much demand will recover in the future.