Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces its production, domestic sales and export results, including those for subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors, Ltd., for November 2012.
November 2012 Highlights (year-on-year)
Production in Japan
Toyota
- Decreased
Daihatsu
- Decreased
Hino
- Eighteenth consecutive month of increase
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
- Decreased
Sales in Japan
Toyota
- First increase in three months
- Lexus-vehicle sales totaled 3,161 units (16.7 percent decrease)
- Minivehicle sales totaled 2,931 units
- 51.3 percent share of market excluding minivehicles (2.1 percentage point increase)
- 32.5 percent share of market including minivehicles
Daihatsu
- Decreased
- Minivehicle sales totaled approximately 46,900 units (10.4 percent decrease)
- 31.3 percent share of minivehicle market (5.2 percentage point decrease)
Hino
- Third consecutive month of increase
- Standard-truck sales totaled approximately 1,900 units (14.4 percent increase)
- 34.2 percent share of truck* market (4.5 percentage point increase)
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
- Decreased
- 45.4 percent share of market including minivehicles (0.6 percentage point decrease)
Exports
Toyota
- First increase in three months, due to increased exports to North America, Oceania and the Middle East
Daihatsu
- Decreased, due to decreased exports to Oceana, Africa, the Middle East and Europe
Hino
- Fourteenth consecutive month of decrease, due to decreased exports to North America, Latin America, Oceania, Africa and the Middle East
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
- First increase in four months
Production outside Japan
Toyota
- Second consecutive month of increase, due to increased production in Africa, Australia, Asia, Latin America and North America; record high for the month of November
Daihatsu
- Third consecutive month of increase, due to increased production in Indonesia
Hino
- Seventeenth consecutive month of increase, due to increased production in Asia
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
- Second consecutive month of increase; record high for the month of November
*Maximum loading capacity of four tons or more; excluding imported trucks
