In Japan, cars are sold / bought at auctions rather than trading between individuals.
 This is Japan custom and car system for more than 40 years.
There are many auctions
from small (several 100 cars/week) to giant auction houses (1,000 or more cars/ week,
the biggest 50,000 cars/week).
There are total of 141 auction sites in Japan.
It has always been very good advantage of "Authorized Used Car Dealers" trading
used cars at these 'Members - only auctions' with low car prices . These auctions are not
open to general public.
In general, Japanese auto market is as
| *Year : 2007 |
JAPANESE AUTO MARKET |
| CONSUMERS |
USED CAR
DEALERS |
AUCTIONS |
REGISTERED
VEHICLES |
NO.OF VEHICLES
TRADED-IN |
CARS
CONSIGNED |
| 76,000,000 |
4,500,000 |
8,419,295 |
USED CAR
DEALERS |
CONSUMERS |
EXPORT |
SOLD AT
AUCTIONS |
USED CARS
SOLD |
USED CARS /
ABROAD |
| 4,680,000 |
2,600,000 |
1,250,000 |
|
MARIS Inc.
have access to Japan Automobile Auctions and good relations with auction houses. We can bid and make purchases from major auction houses such as; JU - TAA - CAA - JAA - ARAI - LAA - HAA - USS and others.
Market share of auction houses are as;
| |
YEAR : 2007 |
MARKET POSITION
OF AUCTIONS |
| |
AUCTIONED
CARS
(WEEK) |
AUCTION |
DETAILED |
CARS
CONSIGNED |
| 1 |
50,000 |
USS |
USS
CO.LTD |
2,873,940 |
| 2 |
25,000 |
JU |
JAPANESE
USED
DEALERS
ASSO. |
1,396,549 |
| 3 |
21,000 |
TAA/
CAA |
TOYOTA
USEC
CO.
CAA CO.LTD |
1,193,616 |
| 4 |
13,500 |
JAA |
JAPAN
AUTOMOBILE
AUCTION |
703,813 |
| 5 |
7,000 |
ARAI |
ARAI
SYOJI
CO LTD |
369,783 |
| 6 |
6,000 |
LAA |
LAA
CO. LTD |
319,269 |
| 7 |
4,750 |
AUCNET |
AUCNET
INC. |
256,531 |
| 8 |
4,000 |
KCAA |
KYUSHU
CENTRAL
AUTO |
208,377 |
| 9 |
2,500 |
HONDA |
HONDA
U-TEC
CO LTD |
133,328 |
| 10 |
2,200 |
NAA |
NISSAN
USED
CAR |
115,497 |
|
