Honda Up 13%; Accord Leads With 41% Gain

by Paul Niedermeyer

Published: March 2nd, 2010

The Honda Accord has Camry schadenfreude written all over it. With a 41% increase, and 22k units sold, the Accord is off to a likely win in the passenger car sweepstakes of 2010. The Civic didn’t ride the updraft nearly as well, with a modest 5% lift. The Insight’s 2k units continue to tail the Prius’ 8k units by a 1 to 4 ratio, somewhat better than a few months back.

The Honda brand was up 12%, and Acura by 17%. But all of Acura’s cars were down; its growth was fueled by the two CUVs: MDX: +65%; RDX: +20%. Honda CUVs were all down a bit, and the Odyssey up a tad. And three FCX Clarities were leased. Full details:

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Pete Zaitcev on Mar 02, 2010

What's going on with Fit? I remember trying one out a few months ago. Accord was too big, Civic was too meh, Fit was just right (a very close match with Mini, score-wise). The only reason I didn't buy a Fit was that I had too much money allocated, so I ended buying in the different class entirely. Seems like an excellent car, yet it is tanking, why?

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- John Horner on Mar 02, 2010
  
  The Fit is simply too small for the tastes of most US buyers. Also, it is interesting that the number of Insights sold almost exactly equals the drop in Fit sales. Maybe Fit buyers are fuel economy obsessed Honda buyers and many of them moved to the Insight this year.
  
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- Criminalenterprise on Mar 03, 2010
  
  The Fit has terrible ergonomics. That awful A-pillar window makes me feel like I'm sitting in a GM dustbuster minivan. I couldn't ever buy one for that alone.
  
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LectroByte on Mar 02, 2010

The Crosstours seem to be selling pretty well, and I don't quite get the hate for them here. I always liked 5-doors, and it seems like a reasonable alternative to most of the SUV/CUV offerings.

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- Hans007 on Mar 03, 2010
  
  mostly that it is beyond ugly. have you seen the overhangs? all these wierd coupe suv, things are terrible (zdx , x6, 550i GT, etc). wagon, 2 door coupe, or sedan, stop wasting r&d on this crap car companies. i'm assuming the same people buyign crosstours buy them because its a honda and its sort of practical and has a v6 + awd etc. probably the same people who buy things like the element when it still had plastic cladding as just "a practical car"
  
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