Mitsubishi Motors reported the biggest half year global production fall of Japan’s top five automakers – 55.8% down to 306,264 units.


Mazda was off 45.9% to 382,948 units, the Toyota Motor group down 40.6% to 2,967,964, Nissan Motor fell 40.0% to 1,099,760 and Honda Motor declined 33.7% to 1,317,309.


All five also reported record declines in domestic production in the first half ranging from 64.2% at Mitsubishi to 37.1% at Honda.


The Toyota brand’s 49.0% drop to 1,101,021 units was the lowest on record for a first half since 1976 when the current form of data collecting began.


Nissan’s 51.7% fall to 344,891 units was the lowest since 1971 for which the oldest comparable data was available.

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Exports halved by more than 50% in the six-month period.


Again, Mitsubishi reported the biggest drop of 76.4%; Mazda did best with a 54% fall.


But domestic sales declines were slower. Sales fell 29.3% at Mazda, 27.9% at Mitsubishi, 25.0% at Nissan, 22.3% at the Toyota group and 15.0% at Honda.


Global production declines in June were less than in May but still ranged from 47.8% at Mitsubishi to 18.7% at Mazda.

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