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Thursday September 9th 2010

HONDA STEP WAGON sells well



stepwagonRecently Honda’s news is not so good. Eco cars are wanted these days, which should be Honda’s time. Decades ago, Honda always led the world of Eco Cars with high cost performance of energy consuming rate. Civic or Accord were the symbol of the Eco Cars, recently, Fitz or Jazz is becoming the Honda’s standard car.

Today, news says that Honda Step Wagon is recording good sales, which seems to be more than 3 times higher than expected. Honda Step Wagon made 18000 car sales, with all the expected sales was 6000 a month.

In Japan, consumers mind is really moody and gloomy. At this situation, family car like this could not be expected good sales.

It’s a good news for Honda, but at the same time, this probably means the epilogue of  Honda’s sedan type cars.  Honda needs to make next generation’s Civic for leading Eco Car era, this comment is often heard from Honda fans.