Honda is doing good business in its home country of Japan with a model that has never been sold in the Netherlands. We’re talking about the N-Box, a tall city shopper that was Japan’s most popular kei car in 2021.
Lovers of tiny but often remarkably practical Japanese city cars thanks to their angular carriages will undoubtedly know the N-Box from Honda. The N-Box is not the only kei car that Honda has on the menu in its home country. It sells, among others, the N-WGN, the N-VAN, the N-One and briefly the S660. Still, Honda is undoubtedly most pleased with the N-Box. The Honda N-Box is the most popular kei car in Japan for the seventh time in a row.
Honda sold 188,940 copies of the N-Box in 2021. There are of course a lot, but before the coronavirus started to spread, there were many more. In 2019, the N-Box was good for 253,500 copies sold. The first generation N-Box, launched in 2011, immediately claimed second place in the sales statistics of the kei-cars in its first full year of sales 2012. In 2013, the model reached first place for the first time, but had to give it up in 2014. However, since 2015, the N-Box has been continuously the most popular little one in Japan. Since 2011, Honda has sold no fewer than 2,098,998 units. The sales figures of the N-Box also include the N-Box Slash, a variant of the first generation N-Box delivered between 2014 and 2020 with – you don’t think it – a rising window line and a lower roof. The current second generation N-Box was presented in 2017 and went under the knife in late 2020.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl