Global Vehicles
September 2007
Japanese crossovers proliferate
Japan is a personal-utility-vehicle country, accounting for nearly 60% of annual new passenger car registrations (3.134 million units), according to the Japan Automobile Dealers Association (JADA). Added to that are the 1.5 million light passenger vehicles with tall one-and-a-half-box profiles, which have seating capacity limited to four by law.
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