While various goods are rising due to soaring raw material prices and sharply rising transportation costs, the automobile industry is moving to raise the selling price of foreign cars one after another.
Of these,
▽ Volkswagen will raise the price by an average of about 2% from April on most models sold in Japan, including the "Golf".
Most of the target cars have just raised their prices by an average of 1.5% in October last year.
▽ Group Audi will also raise the price by about 2% for many car models from April.
In addition
, ▽ Group PSA Japan, which develops Peugeot and Citroen, decided to raise the price by an average of about 3.3% for almost all car models in January
. I raised the price.
Companies say that the reason for the price increase is that the prices of raw materials such as iron and precious metals are rising sharply and that the transportation cost is rising due to the soaring crude oil price, and there are a series of movements to pass on the increase to the selling price. ..
On the other hand, Japanese automobile manufacturers have not raised prices in Japan due to soaring prices of raw materials due to fierce price competition, but some manufacturers are considering it in the future.
The price increase of foreign cars may exceed 100,000 yen depending on the model, and there is concern that it will affect future demand for cars.