Honda ranked 7th in the Top 10 for Global Sales in First Half of 2013

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. 

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.