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Article: Incentives ease skid in Japan; 3rd qtr. off 2%.(NEWS)(Brief article)
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- Automotive News
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Byline: James B. Treece
Japan's new-vehicle sales got a big boost from that nation's version of cash-for-clunker incentives in the third quarter. The incentives weren't enough to halt a slide in total sales but propelled the Toyota Prius to the top of the quarter's sales chart.
Total new-vehicle sales in the third quarter fell 2 percent from a year earlier to 1,217,329, dragged down in part by a 41 percent drop in sales of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Light-vehicle sales slipped 1 percent to 1,191,565.
That decline was much less steep than the 21 percent collapse in light-vehicle sales in the first half of the year. Government tax incentives ...
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