By the previous earthquake in Japan, Japanese auto production and sales overall have fallen sharply, and because of the shortage of some core components, Ashkenazi, the U.S. Department of many brand car production is also subject to different shocks, the Japanese earthquake has formed a global automotive industry shock.

    Experts believe that to sum up lessons learned from Japan's earthquake, China's automobile industry can no longer blindly expand production capacity, and should value their own parts system, and gradually reduce the industry's external dependence, the formation of independent industrial system and core competitiveness.

    Japan earthquake hit the global car industry

    Since the earthquake, Japan, traffic disruption, affected the supply of raw materials and finished products can not be shipped to the airport or port, the supply chain has created the crisis. The Japanese auto industry in the global position of the chain is extremely important, at present, such as spare parts supply disruptions, the domestic prices of imported cars have been significant increases.

    North Jilin Auto Industrial Development Co., Ltd. Research Department, said in a report, due to sharp drop in production in Japan, parts and components imported from Japan could not deliver on time. If Japanese companies can not resume normal production cars in 2011 worldwide production fell more than 30% likely. Head of Research at the sweet, said GM was forced to shut down early in a plant in Louisiana, PSA Peugeot Citroen Group, the majority of factories were forced to cut production in Europe. Only one reason: Hitachi's air flow sensor, a manufacturing plant out of business by the earthquake.

    It is understood that one-third of Japan's auto industry and the world in Europe and America, Japan is an important component of advanced production base in Asia and these parts are widely used in other parts of the world assembly of finished products. Affected by the earthquake in Japan, March 21 Shreveport, Louisiana, plant shutdown, the specific models involved Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon pickup; Madrid and Vigo, Spain, France, Poissy and Ounai, Slovakia Tell Nava PSA factories and other places about 40% -50% cut, the specific models involved Peugeot 207, Citroen C3; Volvo, Gothenburg, Sweden, and Santos Miranda factory in Ghent, Belgium plant affected ... ...

    Reporters found that the current products in the domestic Japanese automotive market has started moving, and fear of short supply, some products have a price increase. Nissan's Infiniti premium brand is a net importer of Japanese cars, a reporter from the Shanghai Yongda Infiniti 4S shops understand that the store is now the car has very little. "Prices have shown a significant rise, such as the G37 before the benefits can be achieved in the earthquake more than thirty thousand yuan, but now has been reduced to 15,000 yuan; FX original offer for five million, but reduced to twenty thousand in the future there may be further reduced concessions. "Bao Hongwei store sales director, said the domestic car parts can guarantee the supply of these about three months, if Japan does not improve the production, possible future supply of spare parts shortages.

    Jilin Auto Industrial Development Co., Ltd. in northern industry researcher Wang Dan Star said that although most Japanese brands sold in the U.S. are produced in the United States, but hybrid models such as energy conservation and are imported from Japan. Because of the earthquake lay in U.S. sales of the Toyota Prius and other Japanese imported cars are mostly only two months of inventory. Wang Dan Star that the Japanese auto parts caused by the earthquake or shortage of supply will cut 30% of automobile production capacity around the world, the world's automobile production capacity has shrunk by 13% reduction in vehicle production of about 32 million.

    Cast a shadow over China's auto industry

    Earthquake by the Japanese auto industry is not a small impact, Toyota, Honda and Nissan plants in Japan were all there to stop production. Experts believe that the recovery prospects of Japanese companies is not yet clear, the development of China's automotive industry is expected to cast a shadow.

    BYD President Wang said that as Japanese car companies worldwide manufacturing base, coupled with joint ventures in China, car prices have been sufficiently localized, so the earthquake in China's joint-venture car prices have little effect. But the quake zone in the northeast region of Japan, the Japanese car companies are equipped with three production bases, parts supply industry will be affected by a certain impact on the domestic Japanese automotive core parts, some need to import from Japan. Guangzhou Toyota insiders say, if the supply of Japanese parts suppliers in a period of time failed to resume production, the factory may also be facing shutdown situation.