Prius Tops Car Sales Ranking in Japan Despite Recall

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Mar 5, 2010 18:50 Yoshirou Tsuruhara, Nikkei Automotive Technology

Japan Automobile Dealers Association (JADA) announced the sales ranking of the passenger vehicles sold in February 2010 in Japan.

Despite the recall problem, Toyota Motor Corp's Prius stayed at the first place. The top eight ranks are occupied by the same cars as in the ranking for January 2010 though their ranks slightly changed. Toyota's Vellfire and Mazda Motor Corp's Demio dropped out of the top ten vehicles while Toyota's Voxy and Nissan Motor Co Ltd's Note ranked the ninth and tenth places, respectively.

Rank Maker Name Unit sales Year-to-year basis (%)
1 Toyota Prius 27,008 597
2 Honda Fit 13,967 146.2
3 Toyota Vitz 11,003 129.2
4 Toyota Passo 10,768 114.7
5 Toyota Corolla 10,623 132.2
6 Nissan Serena 8,311 128.3
7 Honda Freed 8,192 159.2
8 Honda Stepwgn 7,828 297.8
9 Toyota Voxy 6,851 131.6
10 Nissan Note 6,688 126.8
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