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Honda Sets All-time Calendar Year Records for Automobile Production in China

January 30, 2020, Japan

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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.