Honda posts 4.5% YoY growth in Jan.-Feb. China deliveries

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Japanese automaker Honda announced that its China's deliveries in February edge down 1.5% year on year to 75,907 units. GAC Honda delivered 40,508 vehicles with a drop of 4.2%, while Dongfeng Honda gained a slight growth of 1.8% with its sales amounting to 35,399 units.

For the first two months, Honda's total deliveries in China climbed 4.5% over a year ago to 212,390 units. Both two joint ventures achieved positive growth in cumulative sales. Specifically, GAC Honda sold 116,300 vehicles, an increase of 2.8%, and Donfeng Honda's sales volume climbed 6.6% from the previous year to 96,090 units.

The champion model by Feb. deliveries was the CIVIC. Last month, the sales of the CIVIC jumped 22% from the year-ago period to 11,805 units. Besides, the sales of the FIT and the CRIDER reached 9,035 units and 7,511 units respectively, presenting vigorous year-on-year growth of 27.5% and 13.2% compared with the same period a year ago.

Moreover, the CR-V, with 8,704 units delivered in February, obtained a remarkable year-on-year jump of 47.4%, which was also the positive growth for the third month in a row. Of that, the deliveries of the CR-V HYBRID, the NEV version carrying Honda's SPORT HYBRID i-MMD system, amounted to 1,241 units.