Honda Sets All-time Calendar Year Records for Automobile Production in China
January 30, 2020, Japan
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for the year of 2019 as well as for the month of December 2019.
World Production
| Dec. 2019 | YOY | Jan-Dec 2019 Acc. |
YOY | |
| Japan | 50,724 | 62.0% | 843,056 | 94.6% |
| Outside of Japan | 312,280 | 91.9% | 4,327,539 | 96.9% |
| North America | 101,110 | 81.4% | 1,817,191 | 99.8% |
| (USA) | 67,168 | 80.8% | 1,205,016 | 97.1% |
| Europe | 5,924 | 61.2% | 108,783 | 68.0% |
| Asia | 194,912 | 100.2% | 2,234,963 | 97.3% |
| (China) | 145,566 | 105.1% | 1,566,735 | 104.3% |
| Others | 10,334 | 89.3% | 166,602 | 88.8% |
| Total | 363,004 | 86.1% | 5,170,595 | 96.5% |
-Record high for calendar year and the month of December: China
-Production in Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in 2 years.
-Production in regions outside of Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in 8 years.
-Worldwide production experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in 8 years.
Sales in the Japanese market
| Dec. 2019 | YOY | Jan-Dec 2019 Acc. |
YOY | |
| Total | 39,102 | 72.7% | 722,003 | 96.6% |
| Registrations | 17,553 | 64.6% | 357,171 | 94.6% |
| Mini-vehicles | 21,549 | 81.0% | 364,832 | 98.7% |
-Total Japanese sales experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in 3 years.
-New vehicle registrations experienced a year-on-year decrease for the third consecutive year.
-Sales of mini-vehicles experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in 3 years.
-Sales result of major vehicles: FREED 85,585units (9th best selling car among new vehicle registrations:
excluding mini-vehicles) / N-BOX 253,502units (1st best selling car among mini-vehicles: under 660cc)
Exports from Japan
| Dec. 2019 | YOY | Jan-Dec 2019 Acc. |
YOY | |
| Total | 7,270 | 29.4% | 131,322 | 74.3% |
| North America | 950 | 9.7% | 28,057 | 32.3% |
| (USA) | 725 | 7.6% | 27,126 | 31.5% |
| Europe | 4,516 | 34.7% | 82,800 | 121.5% |
| Asia | 551 | 83.5% | 9,802 | 90.0% |
| Others | 1,253 | 101.8% | 10,663 | 98.2% |
-Total exports from Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the first time in 2 years.