Honda and Nissan's integration increases their position with the Chinese "Byd"

The merger of “Honda Motor” and “Nissan Motor” can improve the capacity of the Japanese companies – which are currently experiencing problems – to confront the Chinese “at -top” business, according to the sales numbers released on Wednesday. ‘Honda’, which earlier this week unveiled a plans for an agreement that is considered an acquisition of ‘Nissan’, sold 3.43 million cars worldwide during the first 11 months of 2024. While ‘Nissan’ sold ‘a little over 3 million cars, according to a separate statement. As for the largest car business in China, “at the same period, it sold 3.76 million cars, showing the weakness of” Nissan “and” Honda “when each business works alone, but with their integration, they can have a real opportunity to compete with large businesses. ‘Honda’ and ‘Nissan’ are facing difficulties in competing with emerging local car businesses in China, which exceeded Japan to become the largest source of cars in the world during 2023, and is expected to exceed 2025. integration. Honda and Nissan Sales Honda sales in China fell 28% in November, and production fell 38% annually. While Nissan sales in China fell 15.1% in November, and production fell by 26%. In the world, Honda sales fell 6.7% to 324504 units last month, while production fell by 20.4%. The ‘Nissan’ sales fell 1.3% worldwide in November to 278,763 cars, while production fell by 14.3%. Honda and Nissan will also be a greater threat to ‘Toyota Motor’, the largest car business in the world, followed by the German ‘Volkswagen’. The ‘Toyota’ sales in the world during November during November saw no significant increase or growth due to the poor demand that coincided with the stop of production in two of its factories. Toyota sales- including sales of subsidiaries such as “Daihatsu Motor” and “Heno Motors”- according to the Japanese company on Wednesday amounted to a 0.2% decrease on an annual basis at 984348 units. The production also fell 9.4% year -on -year to 966921 units. A fierce war in the car market, “Toyota”, faces major challenges of locally manufactured electric cars in China, in addition to intense competition in the hybrid car that works in gasoline and electricity in the United States. Like “Honda” and “Nissan”, the presence of “Toyota” in the markets of Southeast Asia is gradually disappearing due to competition by Chinese businesses. More wide, poor global demand for new cars is exacerbated this year as a result of Toyota’s production cuts due to the investigations conducted by the regulators, and the withdrawal of some car models in Japan and abroad. Toyota’s production dropped 7.3% in Japan and 15.2% in China during the period between January and November, which once again shows the increasing competition by companies with the largest economy in Asia. The production of “Toyota” cars in China, or cars coming from the production line, does not have the final sales of consumers, has fallen by 1.6% over the past month. However, investors ignored the slowdown in Toyota sales after a report published by the newspaper “Nikai” stating that the company plans to increase the purpose of the property rights return to 20%. Toyota’s property returns range from 9% to just under 16% over the past year. Toyota shares increased by 4.4%.