Production, Sales and Export Results in December, 2021

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for the month of December 2021.

World Production

  December 2021 YOY Jan.- Dec.
2021
YOY
Japan 66,411  108.0% 615,587 84.4%
Outside of Japan 308,666  84.2% 3,520,431 95.9%
Total 375,077 87.6% 4,136,018 94.0%

Production in Main Regions

North America 90,723  77.3% 1,301,172 89.7%
USA 59,559  78.4% 856,324 88.6%
Asia 212,310 90.6% 2,054,204 100.4%
China 163,259 86.5% 1,578,210 95.9%

Calendar Year of 2021

Production in Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the third consecutive year.

Production in regions outside of Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the third consecutive year.

Worldwide production experienced a year-on-year decrease for the the third consecutive year.

December 2021

Production in Japan experienced a year-on-year increase for the second consecutive month.

Production in regions outside of Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the seventh consecutive month.

Worldwide production experienced a year-on-year decrease for the seventh consecutive month.

Sales in the Japanese Market

  December 2021 YOY Jan.- Dec.
2021
YOY
Total 43,927  96.7% 579,740 93.6%
Registrations 22,034 105.0% 274,338 93.4%
Mini-vehicles 21,893 89.5% 305,402 93.9%

Calendar Year of 2021

Total Japanese sales experienced a year-on-year decrease for the the third consecutive year.

New vehicle registrations experienced a year-on-year decrease for the fifth consecutive year.

Sales of mini-vehicles experienced a year-on-year decrease for the third consecutive year.

Freed was the industry’s ninth best-selling car among new vehicle registrations for the calendar year 2021 with sales of 69,577 units.

N-BOX was the industry’s top-selling car in the mini-vehicle category for the calendar year 2021 with sales of 188,940 units.

December 2021

Total Japanese sales experienced a year-on-year decrease for the seventh consecutive month.

New vehicle registrations experienced a year-on-year increase for the second consecutive month.

Sales of mini-vehicles experienceda year-on-year decrease for the fifth consecutive month.

Freed was the industry’s ninth best-selling car among new vehicle registrations for the month of December 2021 with sales of 5,331 units. VEZEL was the industry’s tenth best-selling car among new vehicle registrations for the month of December 2021 with sales of 4,476 units.

N-BOX was the industry’s top-selling car in the mini-vehicle category for the month of December 2021 with sales of 13,439 units.

Exports from Japan

  December 2021 YOY Jan.- Dec.
2021
YOY
Total 11,780 221.1% 66,674 72.3%
North America 1,275 1,655.8% 10,585 187.3%
USA 1,275 1,677.6% 10,532 210.6%
Asia 433 260.8% 6,818 98.2%
Europe 8,592 176.6% 41,113 57.1%
Others 1,480 675.8% 8,158 106.8%

Calendar Year of 2021

Total exports from Japan experienced a year-on-year decrease for the third consecutive year.

December 2021

Total exports from Japan experienced a year-on-year increase for the third consecutive month.