- In the first half of 2015, Japanese car production (PC + LUVs) in Japan declined by 9% to 4.6 million units. This decline is mainly due to the decline of the Japanese market (-11%) which accounts for large part of the local production (55% of total volume in 2015). So there has been a clear slowdown in production after three years during which the country significantly exceeded nine million units.

- Over the whole 2015 year, it is likely that it will fall to around 8.5 million units produced, a figure almost equivalent to that experienced in 2011. In the first half of 2015, the production of passenger cars Japan was down 10.4% (3.9 million units) while that of light utility vehicles was down only 0.8% (0.7 million units).

- The Toyota group, traditionally the first automobile manufacturer in Japan, is still well ahead of all its competitors but is down by 7% to 2.04 million units over this period. In second position, Nissan (+ 5% reaching 492 000 units) is one of the few manufacturers to see its production increase in Japan this year. Suzuki follows closely behind Nissan (-10% to 491 000 units), ahead of Mazda (-6% to 458 000 units), Subaru (up 3% to 346 000 units) and Honda (-37% to 330 000 units) that suffers most from the current environment. Mitsubishi (-18% to 317 000 units) and Isuzu (stable at 134 000 units) remain dead last.

- By model, the Toyota Land Cruiser / Land Cruiser Prado (Lexus LX / GX) are the vehicles the most produced in Japan over this period (180,000 units), ahead of the Toyota RAV4 (158 000 units), Toyota Prius C (147 000 units) and Toyota Prius (144 000 units).

  

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- In the first half of 2015, Chinese production (PC+LUV) increased by 2.6% reaching 12.1 million units (against 11.8 million units last year). We can hence see a slowdown in Chinese growth (+17.7% in 2012, +7.3% in 2013, +5,4% in 2014 and less than 3% in 2015). Production of passenger cars was up by 6.4% reaching 10,3 million units) while those of light utility vehicles went down by 14,9% (1.8 million units). The change in Chinese production follows the changes in the Chinese market, whose growth has also slowdown since 2012.

- The VW Group remained the leader in terms of production (+ 2.7% to 1.86 million units), followed by GM (+ 5% to 1.84 million units), Hyundai-Kia (-3.1% to 0.83 million units), Changan (+ 8% to 0.66 million units), Toyota (+ 5.4% to 0.46 million units), Renault-Nissan (-4.9% to 0, 45 million units), Ford (+ 11.6% to 0.44 million units) and Honda (-3% to 0.42 million units). Independent Chinese manufacturers together accounted for 47.5% of production PC and LUVs, but only 32.5% of PC production. However, PC increased slightly compared to last year.
For Joint Ventures, the SAIC Group remained the leader (1.65 million units) ahead of DFM (1.55 million) and FAW (1.3 million).

- SUVs are constantly growing and currently represent 12% of the PC and UV production and 14% of PC production.

- By model, the WulingHongguang small MPV remained the leader (-18% to 324 000 units), ahead of the VW Lavida sedan (-2% to 199 000 units), the VW Jetta sedan (up 18% to 176 000 units), the Baojun 730 the recent sedan of the GM group (175 000 units), which made a dramatic breakthrough, the SUV Great Wall H6 (+ 23% to 174 000 units), the VW Santana sedan (-2% to 162 000 units), the Hyundai Elantra sedan (+ 10% to 148 000 units), the VW Sagitar sedan (-2% to 147 000 units) and Nissan Sylphy sedan (-2% to 146 000 units).

  

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