Consolidated domestic and overseas automobile sales for the fiscal year ending March 2012 is projected to fall by 12.4 thousand units year on year to total 644.5 thousand units. Domestic passenger car sales are expected to jump 4.5 thousand units to hit 72.6 thousand. Sales will be driven by the all new Impreza which is scheduled to be released by the end of this year. Minicar sales are expected to rise 6.1 thousand units and reach 96.1 thousand as demand for the Sambar climbs during the model's final year on the market. These figures combined will bring domestic automobile sales up 10.6 thousand units to total 168.7 thousand. Overseas sales are expected to be lower than they were last year since the earthquake put a major dent in exports during the first half of the fiscal year. While the scheduled US launch of the new Impreza in the second half is expected to boost sales there, international sales are expected to fall off by 23 thousand units with the total reaching 475.8 thousand units.