Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corporation reported a 12.3% fall in global production to 73,747 units in March 2025, from 84,062 units in the same month last year, due mainly to a 24.5% decline in overseas production to 32,651 units. Output in Japan increased just slightly to 41,096 units, despite an almost 22% drop in exports to 41,061 units.
Production in Asia outside Japan fell by almost 26% year-on-year to 30,984 vehicles last month, with Thai output plunging by 52% to 12,715 units while in Indonesia volumes almost doubled to 12,702 units. The automaker began deliveries of its Thai-made XForce hybrid SUV to local customers in April, its second HEV model to be sold in the country after the Xpander HEV model went on sale in early 2024.
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In the last financial year (FY2024), from April 2024 to March 2025, Mitsubishi’s global production fell by 10% to 909,743 units from 1,010,753 in the previous year, with output in Japan dropping by 4.2% to 478,365 units, while overseas volumes fell by 15.6% to 431,378 units. Exports from Japan fell by 1.7% to 237,428 units.
In the first quarter of 2025 the company produced 227,753 vehicles globally, down by 13.3% compared with 262,718 units a year earlier, with domestic output falling by 2.5% to 126,341 units, while overseas production fell by almost 24% to 101,412 units. Exports increased by 5.4% to 57,998 units in this period.
