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2021-09-22
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Taiwan’s Automobile Sales Results in YTD June 2021
Taiwan’s automobile sales in the first six months of 2021 increased 5.7% year-on-year to 222,000 units. Initially, Taiwan has succeeded in suppressing the new coronavirus infection, but the number of infected people exceeded 700 in one week in mid-May 2021, resulting in a 30% decrease in automobile sales in June. However, since the end of June, the daily number of infected people has been kept below 100.
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Looking at sales by vehicle type, passenger cars such as sedans and hatchbacks continued to decline, going down 12.6% to 65,000 units. On the other hand, recreational vehicles such as SUVs and MPVs increased 18.3% to 127,000 units, and commercial vehicles went up 5.9% to 30,000 units. The two largest segments in the passenger car category declined double digits. Compact cars dropped 18.4% to 16,000 units and small cars went down 25.2% to 25,000 units. In contrast, SUVs in the recreational vehicle category increased 24.5% to 108,000 units driven by the new-vehicle effect of the Toyota Corolla Cross.
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