Japanese Car Sales Recover In China

Bertel Schmitt
by Bertel Schmitt

Japanese automakers are a little less worried when they look westwards to China, as their sales appear to slowly recover from a severe drumming during the island crisis.

Honda’s May car sales in China are up 4.6% on the year, Nissan’s sales rose 2%, and Toyota reports a tiny 0.3% sales increase, says The Nikkei [sub].

Toyota executives say that a lack of new product in China is partially to blame for its laggardness.

Bertel Schmitt
Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.

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  • Corey Lewis Corey Lewis on Jun 05, 2013

    The headlights on that Reiz look all kinds of wrong. Unfortunately it's the only feature on the front half with any shape at all.

  • Jkophn5 Jkophn5 on Jun 06, 2013

    Mahindra went solo with the Logan, re-badged it as the Verito and made some changes. The Logan started to sell better under the Mahindra umbrella. gaspoweredrccars-sale.com

  • Blowfish Blowfish on Jun 06, 2013

    As long as Abe lay low on the Senkaku isl, cars will keep flying off the shelf.

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