Honda’s China deliveries in January record new high of 136,483 units

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Honda delivered 136,483 vehicles in China last month with a year-on-year (YoY) growth of 8.2%, recording a new-high performance in January sales for its Chinese market, according to the Japanese automaker's China sales report.

Both joint ventures achieved blooming outset in 2019 as well. GAC Honda saw its monthly deliveries rose 7% from a year ago to 75,792 units, while Dongfeng Honda also gained a YoY increase of 9.6% with 60,691 vehicles handed over in total.

A total of 7 models got their respective sales exceeding 10,000 units in January, namely, the ACCORD, the CIVIC, the CR-V, the CRIDER, the FIT, the VEZEL and the XR-V.

To be specific, GAC Honda-owned ACCORD, with 23,649 units delivered, had a YoY sales jump of 24.9%. Particularly, the deliveries of the ACCORD HYBRID, which is equipped with the dual-motor hybrid system dubbed SPORT HYBRID i-MMD, leapt 31% over a year earlier to 2,524 units.

In addition, the deliveries of the CR-V climbed 14.2% year on year to 15,711 units, among which the sales of the CR-V HYBRID skyrocketed 88.5% to 2,094 units. The other Dongfeng Honda's model, the CIVIC, had a sales volume of 19,283 units with a remarkable YoY growth of 45.7%.