03 Dec 08 Honda Reported 30.6% Sales Drop in November 2008

American Honda sold 68,343 units of vehicles in November 2008, a decline of 30.6% compared with November 2007.

All Honda vehicles sales went down. The Honda Accord is still the best-selling Honda vehicle with 17,430 units being sold, despite the 38.1% decrease daily sales rate with last November. The Honda Civic also had a slow month with 25,141 units being sold, a decrease of 29.6% compared with last year. Surprisingly, 4,909 units of the Honda Fit were sold last month, a decline of 8.1%.

The Honda Pilot, the 8-passenger SUV, became the exception with 5,601 units sold, an increase of 4.5% from last November. However, other than the Honda Pilots, all Honda trucks were having a slow month as expected. With decline of 26.3% for Honda CR-V, there were 12,153 units of the compact 5-passenger crossover SUV sold.

Below is the detailed sales report

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05 Nov 08 Honda Drops 28% of sales in October 2008

Honda drops 28% sales in Oct 2008 compared witd Oct 2007 despite increase sales of the re-desgined 2009 Honda Fit.

American Honda just published Octobor 2008 Sales. Like most auto makers, a decline of 28.0% daily sales rate compared with sales in Octobor 2007. The all-new redesigned Honda Fit is the only model with increase of 28.1% daily sales rate, with 6,478 units sold last month, compared with 4,868 sold in Octobor 2007.

Sales of Honda trucks and SUVs are decreasing as expected due to the economy situation. The most-selling Honda SUV - Honda CR-V drops 24.4% sales rate with 23.169 units sold last month, followed by the Honda Odyssey, with 38.6% sales rate lower than last Octobor and 9,208 units sold last month.

Two of the best-selling Honda models, the Honda Accord and the Honda Civic, surprsingly drop the sales of 38.4% and 24.8% despite Honda’s promotion of special APR.

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