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Customer LoginsCountdown to 2023: India Overtook Japan to become Third Largest Car Market in Q2 & Q3.
Race for third place: Can India snatch the bronze medal in annual vehicle sales from Japan in 2022? The contest is on, Q4 will decide.If annual light vehicle sales were a race, the annual ranking has been stable for more than a decade: Since 2007, Japan has been the bronze medalist in automotive sales when surpassed by Mainland China. However, the "race for the third place" is on: India surpassed sales of Germany in 2021 and is challenging Japan´s position. YTD, Japan is leading by a thin margin owing to the strong Q1 with the end of the Japanese fiscal year. However, in Q2 and Q3, India´s sales exceeded sales of Japan. The contest is on and will be decided in Q4-2022.
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