08 November 2007

Crazy on K

Do you know K-car? K-car is Japanese category of small automobiles. I think, K-car is the smallest category of automobiles in all over the world. The newest regulation of K-car is...
  • Maximum length: 3.4m
  • Maximum width: 1.48m
  • Maximum height: 2m
  • Maximum displacement: 660cc

It's really small. And we can make out K-car from yellow based license plate. Of course, only in Japan...
Many Japanese buy K-cars because the tax is cheaper than other categories. And K-cars are very economical on gas. It is very important problem because the oil prices are really high these days.

Anyway, Japan Automobile Dealers Association announced that Suzuki's Wagon R got No.1 sales for 9 months straight. Suzuki's Wagon R is also K-car.

I'll tell you the sales ranking of every category in Japan.
  1. Wagon R (Suzuki)*
  2. Move (Daihatsu)*
  3. Corolla (Toyota)
  4. Vitz (Toyota)
  5. Fit (Honda)
  6. Mark X (Toyota)
  7. Voxy (Toyota)-
  8. Noua (Toyota)-
  9. Tant (Daihatsu)*
  10. Mira (Daihatsu)*
I marked * after the K-car manufactures. 4 K-cars on the ranking. And I marked - after the minivan.
Minivan is also popular car in Japan. We can carry many baggage that is one of the good points of minivan. But I think, many minivan users don't use every seats when they drive their minivans. Mostly, they drive it with 1 or 2 passengers. I don't think that minivans are very economical on gas.
Few years before, the automakers in Japan released a lot of types of minivans. This strategy caused a flight from automobiles between young people. In fact, automobile sales in Japan is decreasing now.
They have to get the young people's attention into their cars.

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Posted by Masaya at 23:20

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