Honda’s China business achieves best-ever figure in July deliveries

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Japanese automaker Honda said its new vehicle deliveries in China jumped 17.8% from the previous year to 136,646 units last month, the highest-ever volume in terms of July sales.

Both GAC Honda and Dongfeng Honda posted double-digit growth in July deliveries. According to Honda, a total of 69,187 consumers in China took delivery of the vehicles developed by GAC Honda, representing a year-on-year jump of 24.5%.

(Accord, photo source: Honda China)

There were four models of GAC Honda—the Accord, the Vezel, the Breeze and the Crider—whose July deliveries all exceeded 10,000 units. From the time being, the joint venture has put such models as the new Avancier, the Crider Hybrid and the new Acura CDX onto the market this year. It also kicked off the presale of the all-new Fit in early July, which is expected to hit the market in August. The roll-out of the all-new fit will help GAC Honda further complete its product lineup that places equal emphasis on both SUVs and sedans, so as to smooth away the problem of simplex product structure.

(Civic, photo source: Honda China)

Dongfeng Honda's deliveries grew 11.7% from the year-ago period to 67,459 units in July. The respective retail sales of the three models—the Civic, the CR-V and the XR-V—all surpassed 10,000 units. Notably, the volume of the Civic has been topping 20,000 units for three consecutive months.

As for the year-to-date performances, Honda's China deliveries still declined 13.1% from the previous year to 748,653 units, of which 384,219 units and 364,434 units were sold by GAC Honda and Dongfeng Honda respectively, 11.9% and 14.3% less than the year-ago period.