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FRANKFURT, Germany– BMW’s sales in August increased 2% over the same period a year ago with the Mini and Rolls Royce brands the main contributors, the German carmaker said today.

August sales of BMW cars were flat versus a year ago, but Mini sales were up nearly 11%, while Rolls Royce car sales increased by 23% on the same month a year ago. Meanwhile, BMW motorcycles fell 9%.

For the first nine months, the group’s sales are up more than 4%, with BMW cars up 2.2%; Mini up 15% and Rolls Royce up more than 52%. Motorcycle sales continued to lag, down nearly 3% in the first nine months.

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The Mazda MX-5 was refreshen by a change front bumper looks more cool looking than ever.

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1.Honda Fit/Jazz  11,770

2.Toyota Corolla  (Axio,Fielder,Rumion) 7,595

3.Toyota Vitz/Yaris 6,943

4.Honda Freed 5,931

5.Toyota Prius 4,708

6.Mazda Demio/2 4,545

7.Toyota Passo 4,406

8.Suzuki Swift 4,333

9.Nissan Tiida 4,331

10.Toyota Vellfire 4,257

11.Toyota Crown  4,252

12.Nissan Serena  4,207

13.Toyota Voxy  4,090

14.Nissan Note  4,054

15.Toyota Estima  3,478

16.Toyota Noah  3,399

17.Nissan March  3,303

18.Toyota Alphard  3,089

19.Toyota Ractis  2,759

20.Nissan Cube  2,635

21.Toyota STEPWGN  2,489

22.Mazda Biente  2,459

23.Honda Stream  2,288

24.Toyota Wish  2,148

25.Toyota Sienta  2,040

26.Toyota Porte  1,944

27.Toyota Mark-X  1,884

28.Nissan Premio  1,595

29.Toyota Harrier  1,549

30.Toyota bB  1,541

Source : jada.or.jp

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U.S. and foreign automakers are slated to release their August sales results for the United States later today, and they are expected to be dismal, as droves of consumers continued holding off on purchases of big cars and trucks.

The consumer automotive Web site Edmunds.com previously predicted an industrywide sales decline of 14.4% for the month, compared to the same period a year ago.

“Don’t expect to see a major recovery for the remainder of the year,” Jesse Toprak, executive director of industry analysis for Edmunds.com, said in a report that predicted the biggest sales declines would be on the backs of Detroit automakers, who have been losing sales all year.

Edmunds.com estimated that August sales would fall by 34% at Chrysler LLC, which has stopped leasing, 27.5% at General Motors Corp. and 16.3% at Ford Motor Co.

The biggest Japanese automaker, Toyota Motor Corp., is expected to post a 7.2% decline. At half the overall market’s expected decline, that would continue Toyota’s U.S. trend this year: losing sales but gaining market share.

Meanwhile, Edmunds.com predicted that Honda Motor Co. would post a small 0.9% improvement, with Nissan Motor Corp. posting a larger 2.3% gain.

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Ford Motor Co. lost its third-place spot in the global sales rankings for the first half of the year. So says the Volkswagen Group. Volkswagen delivered 3.31 million vehicles during the first half of 2008, up 7.2%. Ford delivered 3.22 million cars and trucks through June, down from 3.42 million vehicles during the same period a year ago.

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Japan’s top three automakers said global production in July rose to records for that month, highlighting solid growth riding on their reputation for fuel-efficient models amid soaring gasoline prices.

Toyota Motor Corp. - close to passing up General Motors Corp. to become the world’s biggest automaker - said Wednesday that worldwide output rose 10.2 per cent in July from a year ago to 812,147 vehicles.

Honda Motor Co., Japan’s second-biggest automaker, reported July production jumped 17.7 per cent to 342,152 vehicles. Demand for its Fit subcompact, the best-selling car in Japan for the ninth month in a row, has benefited the company.

Nissan Motor Co. also racked up record production for July at 315,975 vehicles, up 26.8 per cent on year, on strong sales of its Maxima and Altima sedans in the U.S. and the Teana and other models in China.

The robust growth for the Japanese comes at a time when soaring gas prices have hurt the world’s auto industry.

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FordMotor Co. said today that July sales for its European division dropped 4.7% in July along with an overall industry slump.

Ford’s sales fell by 7,300 units to 149,800 in July compared with 157,100 for the same month last year. Sales of the Focus, Ford’s top-selling car in Europe in July, fell by 1,200, or 3.7%, to 31,200.

Still, Ford said sales in Russia soared almost 26% to 19,100 units in July. Ford also said European sales for the first seven months of the year are up 2% to 1.2 million vehicles.

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China’s passenger car market is slowing faster than expected, as a result of a fuel price hike, the slowing economy and the rising vehicle purchase tax. It reported the slowest annual growth rate in two years in July.

The sector has maintained a high level of growth of between 20 and 30 percent annually since 2005 and consequently China has been seen as the most important market for global auto conglomerates.

However, statistics from China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) revealed that last month, sales of sedans, multipurpose vehicles and sport utility vehicles in China climbed 6.79 percent from a year earlier, the smallest monthly gain and the first single-digit rise in two years.

With 488,200 domestically produced passenger cars sold nationwide in July, down 17.02 percent month-on-month, China’s booming auto market is suffering the fifth consecutive month of decline this year.
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1.Honda Fit/Jazz  16,293

2.Toyota Corolla (Axio,Fielder,Rumion) 14,546

3.Toyota Vitz/Yaris 13,563

4.Honda Freed 8,948

5.Toyota Voxy 7,772

6.Nissan Serena 7,128

7.Toyota Prius 7,058

8.Toyota Passo 6,873

9.Nissan Tiida (5 doors) 6,501

10.Toyota Crown 6,431

11.Mazda Demio/2 6,366

12.Toyota Noah 6,005

13.Toyota Vellefire 5,851

14.Nissan Note 5,839

15.Toyota Estima 5,657

16.Suzuki Swift 5,189

17.Toyota Ractis 4,999

18.Toyota Alphard 4,821

19.Nissan March 4,685

20.Mazda Biente 3,860

21.Nissan Cube 3,852

22.Toyota Wish 3,776

23.Toyota Mark-X 3,642

24.Toyota Sienta 3,565

25.Honda Stream 3,509

26.Honda StepWGN  3,398

27.Subaru Exiga 3,145

28.Toyota Porte 3,094

29.Nissan Teana 2,952

30.Toyota Isis 2,915

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Dongfeng Nissan Teana 2008

Dongfeng Nissan’s latest data show that the sales of its new-generation Teana had exceeded 8,000 units by July 16, just one month after the new model was launched on June 16. This figure has set a new high in the monthly sales of the Teana brand and is also the biggest first-month-after-launch sales of any Chinese-made mid- to high-end sedan, reported China Youth Daily today.

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