Honda Sets All-Time Calendar Year Production Records for Automobile Production, Worldwide, Overseas, in Asia and China

January 30, 2019, Japan

News Release

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for the calendar year 2018 as well as for the month of December 2018.

Worldwide Production

  Calendar Year 2018 December 2018
Units vs.'17 Units vs.'17
Japan 891,248   +9.0% 81,821 +6.6%
Outside of Japan 4,465,765* +1.1% 339,892 -3.4%
Worldwide Total  5,357,013* +2.3% 421,713 -1.6%

* Record high for calendar year

Production Outside of Japan

  Calendar Year 2018 December 2018
Units vs.'17 Units vs.'17
North America 1,820,779   -1.7% 124,180   -3.8%
(USA) 1,240,487   +2.7% 83,153   -4.5%
Europe 160,075    -3.7% 9,673   -10.7%
Asia 2,297,286 *1 +3.1% 194,472   -1.9%
(China) 1,502,468 *1 +4.2% 138,489 *2 +3.2%
Others 187,625    +8.1% 11,567   -14.3%
Overseas Total 4,465,765 *1 +1.1% 339,892   -3.4%

*1 Record high for calendar year
*2 Record high for month of December

Calendar Year of 2018

Production in Japan experienced a year-on-year increase for the first time in two years (since 2016).

Production in regions outside of Japan experienced a year-on-year increase for the seventh consecutive year (since 2012), setting an all-time record for calendar year production. This includes all-time records for calendar year production in Asia and China.

Worldwide production experienced a year-on-year increase for the seventh consecutive year (since 2012), setting an all-time record for calendar year production.

December 2018

Production in Japan for the month of December 2018 experienced a year-on-year increase for the sixth consecutive month (since July 2018).

Production in regions outside of Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in three months (since September 2018).

Worldwide production experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in three months (since September 2018).

Sales in the Japanese Market

Vehicle type Calendar Year 2018 December 2018
Units vs.'17 Units vs.'17
Registrations 377,635 -1.1% 27,175 0.0%
Mini-Vehicles 369,542 +7.7% 26,606 +1.8%
Honda Brand Total 747,177 +3.1% 53,781 +0.9%

Calendar Year of 2018

Total domestic automobile sales in the calendar year 2018 experienced a year-on-year increase for the second consecutive year (since 2017).

New vehicle registrations experienced a year-on-year decrease for the second consecutive year (since 2017).

Sales of mini-vehicles experienced a year-on-year increase for the second consecutive year (since 2017).

<Vehicle registrations - excluding mini-vehicles>
FIT
was the industry’s sixth best-selling car among new vehicle registrations for the calendar year 2018 with sales of 90,719 units.

<Mini-vehicles - under 660cc>
N-BOX was the industry’s top-selling car among mini-vehicles for the calendar year 2018 with sales of 241,871 units.

December 2018

Total domestic automobile sales in the Japanese market for the month of December 2018 experienced a year-on-year increase for the third consecutive month (since October 2018).

New vehicle registrations were the same as last year.

Sales of mini-vehicles experienced a year-on-year increase for the third consecutive month (since October 2018).

<Vehicle registrations - excluding mini-vehicles>
FIT was the industry’s seventh best-selling car among new vehicle registrations for the month of December 2018 with sales of 6,369 units. FREED was the industry’s 10th best-selling car with sales of 5,878 units.

<Mini-vehicles - under 660cc>
N-BOX was the industry’s top-selling car in the mini-vehicle category for the month of December 2018 with sales of 16,607 units.

Exports from Japan

  Calendar Year 2018 December 2018
Units vs.'17 Units vs.'17
North America 86,809 +215.0% 9,824 +196.3%
(USA) 86,032 +221.7% 9,577 +197.6%
Europe 68,159 +97.1% 13,015 +91.8%
Asia 10,886 +1.4% 660 -46.1%
Others 10,861 +32.5% 1,231 +11.3%
Total 176,715 +118.0% 24,730 +98.9%

Calendar Year of 2018

Total exports from Japan experienced a year-on-year increase for the first time in two years (since 2016).

December 2018

Total exports from Japan in December 2018 experienced a year-on-year increase for the 12th consecutive month (since January 2018).