Honda’s China deliveries in March show 25.8% year-on-year jump

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Japanese automaker Honda announced that its March deliveries in China hit a record high of 122,744 units with an evident year-on-year growth of 25.8%.

Last month, both GAC Honda and Dongfeng Honda achieved an all-time high in March sales. GAC Honda saw its March sales grew 9.4% over a year ago to 64,510 units and Dongfeng Honda's sales surged 50.7% to 58,234 units.

For the first three months of the year, cumulative deliveries of two joint ventures aggregated 335,134 units, a year-on-year increase of 11.4%. Of that, GAC Honda's year-to-date (YTD) sales edged up 5.1% to 180,810 units, while Dongfeng Honda handed over 154,324 units with a growth of 19.8%. Both of them hit new high in Q1 deliveries.

There are a total of 6 models whose respective March deliveries exceeded 10,000 units, namely, the Civic, the Accord, the Fit, the CR-V, the XR-V and the Crider. The best seller was the Civic, which had a sales volume of 21,078 units with a remarkable year-on-year increase of 55.1%. The sales of the CR-V Hybrid, which carries Honda's SPORT HYBRID i-MMD system, amounted to 2,115 units, skyrocketing 183.5% over the year-ago period. The other NEV model, the Accord Hybrid, with 2,128 vehicles delivered last month, gained a year-on-year surge of 43.7%.