Toyota City, Japan, September 28, 2016―Toyota Motor Corporation announces its production, domestic sales, and export results for August 2016, including those for subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd., and Hino Motors, Ltd.

August 2016 Results

Unit = vehicles; figures in ( ) show year-on-year percentage change

Toyota Daihatsu Hino Total
Production in Japan
Passenger cars 214,772(12.5) 39,994(33.0) 254,766(15.3)
Trucks & buses 25,583(9.0) 11,982(14.0) 11,176(7.7) 48,741(9.9)
Total 240,355(12.1) 51,976(28.1) 11,176(7.7) 303,507(14.4)
Sales in Japan
Passenger cars 101,464(16.3) 28,902(4.8) 130,366(13.5)
Trucks & buses 12,458(10.5) 9,658(5.0) 4,623(8.8) 26,739(8.1)
Total 113,922(15.6) 38,560(4.8) 4,623(8.8) 157,105(12.6)
Exports
Passenger cars 114,441(3.8) 0 114,441(2.9)
Trucks & buses 14,445(-1.5) 5,575(-3.1) 20,020(-1.9)
Total 128,886(3.2) 0 5,575(-3.1) 134,461(2.1)
Production
Outside of Japan
489,497(13.5) 34,143(42.4) 2,799(33.7) 526,439(15.1)
Worldwide
production
729,852(13.1) 86,119(33.4) 13,975(12.1) 829,946(14.9)
Includes kits for overseas assembly; includes overseas production; excludes kits from Japan

August 2016 Key Points (year-on-year)

Production in Japan

Toyota
  • First increase in two months
Daihatsu
  • Fourth consecutive month of increase
Hino
  • First increase in five months
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
  • Fourth consecutive month of increase

Sales in Japan

Toyota
  • Sixth consecutive month of increase
  • Lexus vehicle sales totaled 3,609 units (3.5 percent decrease)
  • Minivehicle sales totaled 2,254 units (11.0 percent decrease)
  • 50.0 percent share of market excluding minivehicles (4.6 percentage point increase)
  • 33.8 percent share of market including minivehicles (3.7 percentage point increase)
Daihatsu
  • Second consecutive month of increase
  • Minivehicle sales totaled approximately 37,700 units (2.8 percent increase); second consecutive month of increase
  • 33.2 percent share of minivehicle market (1.6 percentage point increase)
Hino
  • Fifth consecutive month of increase
  • Standard truck sales totaled approximately 2,500 units (9.2 percent increase); Fifth consecutive month of increase
  • 34.6 percent share of the truck market (0.7 percentage point decrease)
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
  • Fifth consecutive month of increase
  • 46.6 percent share of market including minivehicles (4.0 percentage point increase)

Maximum loading capacity of four tons or more; excluding imported trucks

Exports

Toyota
  • Second consecutive month of increase; due to increased exports to Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa
Daihatsu
  • Decreased; due to decreased exports to Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East
Hino
  • Decreased; due to decreased exports to North America, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
  • Second consecutive month of increase

Production Outside of Japan

Toyota
  • First increase in two months; due to increased production in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa; record high for the month of August
Daihatsu
  • Fourth consecutive month of increase; due to increased production in Indonesia
Hino
  • Fifth consecutive month of increase; due to increased production in Asia
Toyota + Daihatsu + Hino
  • First increase in two months; record high for the month of August

Year to Date (January 1 to August 31, 2016)

Unit = vehicles; figures in ( ) show year-on-year percentage change

Toyota Daihatsu Hino Total
Production in
Japan
2,081,341(-0.04) 459,732(-2.9) 95,299(-4.3) 2,636,372(-0.7)
Sales in Japan 1,050,223(5.0) 392,834(-4.6) 40,427(5.4) 1,483,484(2.3)
Exports 1,095,894(-2.4) 2(-99.97) 48,806(-8.9) 1,144,702(-3.2)
Production
Outside of Japan
3,829,174(2.3) 200,155(7.0) 20,421(26.8) 4,049,750(2.7)
Worldwide
production
5,910,515(1.5) 659,887(-0.1) 115,720(0.04) 6,686,122(1.3)
Includes kits for overseas assembly; includes overseas production; excludes kits from Japan

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