Consolidated automobile sales for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending March 2013 totaled 526.6 thousand units, up 94.7 thousand units year on year. This increase came from strong sales of passenger vehicles including the new Impreza launched at the end of last year whose sales soared 2.7 fold on a year-on-year basis. Third quarter cumulative sales worldwide (including Japan) as well as the combined sales total for overseas markets hit a record high. Although domestic sales fell 2.2 thousand units year on year to reach 111.5 thousand units due to a drop in minicar sales, healthy sales of the Impreza and the BRZ brought sales of passenger vehicles up 25 thousand units year on year to 76.9 thousand units. In overseas markets, sales were up across the board mainly for the Impreza, which led to a year-on-year sales increase of 97 thousand units for a total 415.1 thousand units.