. Mitsubishi Motors Announces Production, Sales,
and Exports for September 2005, Fiscal Year 2005 first-half
Tokyo - Mitsubishi Motors
Corporation (MMC) today announced global production, along with domestic
sales and export results for September 2005 and for the first half of
fiscal year 2005.
September 2005
Total global production
totaled 126,083 units, a 6.3 percent increase from the year ago period.
Domestic production came to 66,425 units, a strong year-on-year increase
of 29.1 percent.
Domestically, total vehicle
sales were 26,951 units, 128.8 percent of year ago levels. The Japanese
market has now seen five consecutive months of year-on-year unit volume
growth. Total sales for passenger cars came to 18,716 units, 130.7 percent
of last year's volume, while the figure for commercial vehicles was 8,235
units, 124.8 percent year-on-year.
Overseas production in
September fell 11.2 percent year-on-year to 59,658 units. By region, in
North America production totaled 8,763 units, a 35.7 percent increase from
the year ago period. Europe saw production fall 38.5 percent year-on-year
to 7,657 units, and the figure for Asia was 40,017 units, an 8.8 percent
decline from September 2004.
Exports from Japan totaled
38,307 units, 112.9 percent of last year's level. Exports to North America
were 4,570 units, 121.7 percent year-on-year, and figures for Europe
nearly doubled to 14,852 units, 194.8 percent of the year ago figure.
Exports to Asia came to 2,246 units, 44.5 percent of the September 2004
total.
Fiscal Year 2005,
First-Half
In the first six months of
fiscal year 2005, April through September, total global production came to
669,571 units, 96.3 percent of the total for the first half of fiscal year
2004. Domestic production was 316,670 units, 111.5 percent of year ago
levels.
First half domestic vehicles
sales totaled 107,421 units, a steady 12.0 percent rise year-on-year.
Passenger cars volume came to 69,774 units, up 14.6 percent from last
year's levels, and commercial vehicles saw a 7.6 percent year-on-year rise
to 37,647 units. Domestic market share for the term was 4.0 percent.
Production in North America
fell to 44,543 units, a drop of 24.1 percent from the year ago period.
Exports to the North American market were 21,619 units, a rise of 6.2
percent year-on-year. In Europe exports totaled 65,904 units, 112.8
percent of levels for the first half of fiscal year 2004. European
production came to 34,575 units, 64.4 percent of year ago figures. In
Asia, exports from Japan fell to 18,789 units, 53.4 percent year-on-year.
Production in Asia totaled 250,064 units, down 8.1 percent from the year
ago period.
