With assistance from Autoblog's By The Numbers section, The Good Car Guy has, in response to an interesting question from a GoodCarBadCar.net reader, compiled the monthly statistics for Japanese automobile sales in America for 2009. These are the combined totals for Toyota and its underlings, Honda/Acura, Nissan/Infiniti, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Subaru, and Suzuki. As we all know, Japanese manufacturers assemble many of their cars right here in North America. But what makes a vehicle Japanese, at least to the best understanding of wise automotive analysts, is the badge on the grille. So for the purposes of this graph, the Mitsubishi Galant's three-diamond triangle sets it apart as Japanese even while folks in Normal, Illinois claim it as their own. You get the picture.
Click the graph for a larger view. All in all, Japanese automakers sold 2,859,373 vehicles in the USA from January 1st of 2009 to August 31st of 2009. That's a lot. FYI, Toyota sells the most every month. Honda's quite a ways behind. Nissan's a few lengths behind Honda. Mazda follows up with Lexus and Subaru in the same territory. Acura and Infiniti battle it out in the rear while Mitsubishi and Suzuki trail the pack by numerous thousands of car lengths. Imagine the average length of all these cars to be about as long as a Toyota Corolla: 178.7 inches. End-to-end, these 2.8 million cars would stretch 8,065 miles. That's the equivalent of a line of cars stretching all the way from the northeast corner of Maine to the southwest corner of California..... four lanes wide.
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