Vehicle/Car Sales Thailand: 2012

Crisis? What crisis? It would be easy to think all was well in the world economically looking at Thai vehicle sales. In fact, many places had good car sales in 2012 ... outside of Europe. A 90% increase is startling and all the brands in the top 10 increased by over 80%! As far as accuracy goes, sales figures are dependant on reporting of them by the importer. Generally they did but land Rover didn't report any sales for 6 of the 12 months. I suspect LR's figure is too low, but still managed a strong increase anyway.
The first three columns show 2010 to 2012 ranking, the second column in from the right is increase or decrease, and the extreme right shows market share for the major brands.

1	1	1	Toyota	538,566	86%	35.7%	Over 70% Incr
2	2	2	Isuzu	234,863	78%	15.6%	14 Brands
3	3	3	Honda	172,906	106%	11.5%
5	5	4	Mitsubishi	137,843	111%	9.1%	Up To 70% Incr
4	4	5	Nissan	126,531	83%	8.4%	12 Brands
7	7	6	Chevrolet	80,752	156%	5.3%
6	6	7	Mazda	77,021	83%	5.1%	Decrease
8	8	8	Ford	57,924	98%	3.8%	4 Brands
11	10	9	Suzuki	25,223	160%	1.7%
9	9	10	Hino	18,925	87%	1.3%
13	14	11	Mercedes	6,774	45%
15	15	12	BMW	5,752	49%
14	13	13	Hyundai	5,275	17%
12	12	14	Tata	5,267	2%
10	11	15	Proton	3,305	-36%
17	16	16	Volvo	2,986	89%
21	17	17	DFM	2,451	57%
20	21	18	Fuso	1,749	172%
22	19	19	Kia	1,540	70%
19	20	20	VW	917	26%
25	22	21	Lexus	812	31%
24	23	22	WuLing	464	2%
27	25	23	Scania	340	29%
23	24	24	MINI	303	-21%
26	26	25	Ssangyong	272	15%
30	28	26	Peugeot	210	46%
33	27	27	Citroen	125	-39%
28	29	28	Subaru	123	-10%
34	35	29	Land Rover	69	77%
45	36	30	Skoda	68	84%
			Other	278
			Total	1,509,634	90%

As for strictly passenger car sales only, Toyota was top comfortably but Honda and Nissan were therebouts too.

1	1	1	Toyota	224,516	63%	33.4%	Over 70% Incr
2	2	2	Honda	163,442	110%	24.3%	9 Brands
3	3	3	Nissan	103,504	116%	15.4%
4	4	4	Mazda	45,318	36%	6.7%	Up To 70% Incr
5	7	5	Mitsubishi	42,427	489%	6.3%	7 Brands
7	5	6	Ford	33,980	72%	5.1%
6	6	7	Chevrolet	21,486	29%	3.2%	Decrease
11	9	8	Suzuki	17,951	281%	2.7%	4 Brands
9	10	9	Mercedes	6,249	68%	0.9%
10	11	10	BMW	5,752	147%	0.9%
8	8	11	Proton	3,305	-36%	0.5%
13	13	12	Volvo	1,356	138%	0.2%
16	14	13	Kia	1,048	92%	0.2%
15	15	14	MINI	303	-21%	0.0%
18	16	15	Lexus	300	-15%	0.0%
26	22	16	Hyundai	284	107%	0.0%
14	17	17	VW	268	22%	0.0%
22	21	18	Peugeot	209	45%	0.0%
19	19	19	Ssangyong	184	17%	0.0%
17	18	20	WuLing	131	-18%	0.0%

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