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

Honda to Release all-New Fit and Fit Hybrid in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, September 5, 2013 - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced it will launch the all-new Fit and Fit Hybrid on September 6, 2013.^*1 The first-generation Fit revolutionized the concept of the compact car. Now in its third generation, the Fit once again sets the global compact automobile benchmark. While retaining the design concept of the original model, the all-new Fit features a completely redesigned powertrain and body and offers a whole new level of interior comfort, fuel economy, styling and driving performance.

Sales in the Japanese Market for February 2013

Source: world.honda.com

Honda is on track to regain the best seller in the mini-vehicle category. 

N BOX was the top selling car in Japan in the mini-vehicle category for the month of February 2013 with sales of 22,354 units. The N BOX was the number two best seller for the year of 2012. For February, the N-ONE was the sixth best-selling car with sales of 10,981 units. 

Meanwhile, Honda's automobile sales for February decrease for the second consecutive month year-on-year (since January 2013). This is in line with the decrease in new vehicle registrations for the seventh consecutive month year-on-year (since August 2012).

Artist Impression of 3G Fit/Jazz

Autointrends, an automobile website from Europe has put up a scan of the japanese car-scoop magazine 'Mag-X' artist rendering of the next, 3rd generation Honda Fit/Jazz. They also claims that this next gen Fit/Jazz will debut in Japan on June of next year (2013). The picture above was taken from the intrends.com website.

The Jazz Hybrid is coming !

I can confirm that Honda will be launching the Jazz Hybrid here in Malaysia in the very near future. It will be this month itself though I don't think I should disclose the actual date of the launch at this time. I believe interested buyers will probably already know roughly when as they should be able to place a booking for the car now. This makes a total of three hybrid models in the Malaysian line-up.

New Fit variant for Japan : Fit Shuttle

News of a new variant of Honda's most popular model, the Fit, known as the Fit-Shuttle is now everywhere in japanese car magazines.

While not yet confirmed in Honda's own site at http://www.honda.co.jp, this new variant is FOR REAL. It is a 7-seater compact station wagon in configuration, similar to the Honda AIRWAVE in the previous generation line-up of the JDM Honda Fit (though the AIRWAVE was more a 5-seater station wagon in configuration).

Key components of this new Fit-Shuttle, the design, power-train and so forth as derived from the Fit as with the Airwave. The leaked brochure pages shows that there will be three main types available, a 1.3l, a 1.5l, and a HYBRID. Expect similar if not almost identical powertrain and transmission specifications as the JDM Fit.