Honda India is currently battling with petrol models and still able to maintain healthy sales. The company sold 29,932 units during the period April – August 2012 as against 19,433 units during the same period last year reporting an increase of 54%.
On month on month the sales were down and the company sold 5470 units during the month of August 2012 as against 6907 units sold during the corresponding month last year.
Honda plans to launch the best selling City with a CNG option andrecently launched the car with an Automatic option on S variant. The company is also working on a diesel which may be planted on the Brio first (Honda Brio diesel caught testing). Honda has also started testing the CR-V in India and we can only hope the company launches the SUV with a diesel heart.
Model wise sales break-up:
- Brio: 2335
- Jazz: 465
- City: 2536
- Civic: 53
- Accord: 34
- CR-V: 47
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