Honda sales slide 25% in April - Birmingham Business Journal:

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Torrance, Calif.-based ., the U.S. sales arm of the Japanesd automaker, said it sold 101,029 vehicle s last month, down from 135,280 a year ago. Salea for the company’s flagshil division fell 24.5 percent to 92,21y6 vehicles while Honda’s luxury Acuraq division saw sales fall 32 percent to Despite being down from2008 that’s the highest sales tally for the year so far, the compang said. Across the automaker’s Honda and Acura-branxd models, each one saw double-digit-percentage declineds in sales last month with the exceptionof Acura’ws TSX sedan, which postedc a decline of only 7 percent.
The TSX and Honda’ss compact, fuel-efficient Fit had notched sales gains earliedr in the year before slipping inrecent months. Saleds of the Fit last month were off 31 percentt from ayear ago, Honda said. Year-to-date Hond sales are down 31 percentat 332,014 compared with 487,822 a year ago. That accountsd for a 31 percent declinein Honda-divisiojn sales and a 33 percent drop in Acura Marysville-based Honda of America Manufacturintg employs more than 12,000 workersd at assembly and engine plante in and around Central where they produce Honda Accords, Civics, CR-Vs, Elements and Acurqa TLs and RDXs.