JAPAN: Auto sales hit 34-year low
Author: just-auto.com editorial team | 5 January 2009
Japanese sales of new vehicles, excluding minivehicles, fell to a 34-year low of 3,212,342 units in 2008 - nearly half of the 1990 peak.
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