Toyota Yaris lead in the medium of the compact 4x2 market that is as much the first quarter of 6880 units, with April sales contribute as much as 1566 units. and is the highest first quarter sales record since the Yaris was launched.
Press releases PT Toyota Astra Motor said that the achievement of the complete success of Toyota's sales January-April period amounted to 106,664 units, up 14.4% compared to same period previous year.
"We are grateful Yaris achievements during the first quarter of 2011 gave encouraging results with the market leader in its class, this shows the Yaris increasingly accepted by consumers and the community," said Johnny Darmawan, President Director of PT. Toyota-Astra Motor
This achievement further confirms the positive response from the market of products just got an additional predicate as car choice in the arena of women in Indonesia Kartini Brand Choice Award 2011.
Sales Page. Toyota-Astra Motor during April 2011 totaled 21 128 units, lower than the previous month of 32,275 units. The decrease occurred because the company experienced supply constraints due to limited supply of vehicle number of principal components.
"The decline was not due to weaker consumer interest, but due to limited production activities due to shortage of components and is experienced by all Japanese car manufacturers vehicles," said President Director of PT Toyota Astra Motor (TAM), Johnny Darmawan.
But overall, sales of Toyota during the period January-April 2011 remained higher than the same period of 2010. Total sales from January to April 2011 has reached 106 554 units or 14.4% higher than the same period in 2010 amounted to 93,154 units. The biggest sales came from the MPV segment that reached 75,291 units, up 17% compared to 64,354 units in 2010.
Johnny explains, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan has caused operational interruption supplier company that produces a number of important components such as microchips. These conditions forced Toyota to rationing the supply of components to various countries, including Indonesia.
"Hopefully in the near future, this component of supply problem is resolved, so that production can be improved and TAM could serve consumer demand for Toyota cars which now still remains high," he added.
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