3/19/12

Let's talk about global ranking of car sales?

The highest ranking of car sales this year is still held by China and other countries continue to leave. China's auto sales this year predicted would reach 19.21 million units of vehicles.

Car sales in India is expected to overtake sales of Japanese cars in 2016. India will become the second country after China's biggest car sales recorded in ASIA.

Car sales in India is expected to increase to 4.88 million vehicles in 2016, up significantly from last year's car sales only reached 2.91 million million units. While it is expected to continue to climb to number 6.73 million units in 2020.

Meanwhile, Japan is predicted to only be able to achieve sales of 4.51 million units in 2016, is not very significant increase from last year recorded sales of 4.13 million units. The bitter truth that by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last year.

While predictions IHS as reported by the Wall Street Journal, Thursday (03/15/2012), car sales in Japan will be held in figures 4.35 million vehicles in 2020.

The predictions, of course, far behind India's car market. One factor may be lagging Japanese market because automakers are playing in India always serve a small engine car that is considered very reasonable for the affairs of the bag.

While China, the prediction of automotive players in China in the coming 2020 will reach 30.68 million units of numbers of vehicles, up 74 percent from 17.66 million units last year, according to IHS Automotive.

Bamboo Curtain country managed to overtake the U.S. in 2009 and is now the world's largest car market. And Indonesia is currently sitting in fourth place after South Korea was third.