Honda ranked 7th in the Top 10 for Global Sales in First Half of 2013
25 August 2013
Source: Focus2Move
World's car market grew 3% in first half 2013 with the top 8 brand stable in their respective positions. While Toyota's lead seems unassailable, there might be a close fight between Ford and VW as well as among Hyundai, Nissan and Honda.
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| Brand New Fit RS launched in Tokyo on 6 June |
For the first half of 2013, Honda is in 7th with 1.947.269, 150.000 behind Nissan. Sales in June was 338,737 units and 5.0% market share. Honda is currently performing better than other Japanese brands in China. Kia is a distance 8th, about 700,000 units lower.
With the introduction of the new Accord, Fit and Fit Hybrid along with the different variants of Brio's platform. we expect Honda to put up a strong fight for 4th till the end of the year.
In the table below, the World's Top 10 Brands ranking:
Rank Jun | Rank May | Rank Ytd | Brand | Jun | I Half '13 | Q3 2012 | Q4 2012 | Q1 2013 | May 2013 | Jun 2013 | Ytd 2013 |
1 | 1 | 1 | Toyota | 641.168 | 3.880.083 | 10,4% | 9,2% | 9,5% | 9,3% | 9,5% | 9,6% |
2 | 2 | 2 | Volkswagen | 548.602 | 3.178.950 | 8,0% | 7,7% | 7,6% | 7,5% | 8,1% | 7,6% |
3 | 3 | 3 | Ford | 516.187 | 2.822.606 | 6,5% | 6,4% | 6,4% | 7,4% | 7,7% | 7,0% |
4 | 4 | 4 | Chevrolet | 419.349 | 2.375.670 | 6,3% | 5,9% | 5,6% | 5,7% | 6,2% | 5,9% |
5 | 5 | 5 | Hyundai | 369.051 | 2.177.195 | 5,3% | 5,4% | 5,1% | 5,3% | 5,5% | 5,3% |
6 | 6 | 6 | Nissan | 341.522 | 2.102.363 | 5,3% | 4,6% | 5,4% | 4,8% | 5,1% | 5,1% |
7 | 7 | 7 | Honda | 338.737 | 1.947.269 | 4,8% | 4,3% | 4,6% | 4,7% | 5,0% | 4,8% |
8 | 8 | 8 | Kia | 210.731 | 1.254.638 | 3,3% | 3,2% | 2,9% | 3,1% | 3,1% | 3,1% |
9 | 10 | 9 | Renault | 179.026 | 960.911 | 2,3% | 2,3% | 2,2% | 2,2% | 2,7% | 2,4% |
10 | 9 | 10 | Fiat | 157.185 | 919.082 | 2,3% | 2,2% | 2,1% | 2,4% | 2,3% | 2,3% |
The report provides data updated at the day of publishing.
This report was provided aggregating official registrations data from these countries: USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, All European Community and Efta (30 countries), Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arab, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, India, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. They are 81 countries representing 95% of global car sales.
