Honda makes a comeback with new City and W-RV, widens lead over TaMo

In the first 4 months of CY17, Honda has sold 14% more units than Tata Motors

Japanese car maker Honda's recent comeback could make Tata Motors’ attempts of becoming the third-largest domestic player by 2019 challenging. In FY17, the latter had come close to overtaking Honda on volumes of domestic passenger vehicle sales.

Honda’s sales had dipped 18 per cent to 157,313 units in FY17, as bestseller City struggled to race Maruti Suzuki’s Ciaz. In the same period, Tata Motors rode new hatchback Tiago to post 22 per cent surge in domestic sales (at 153,151 units), bringing it closer to Honda, the fourth-largest player.  

In the last four months, two developments have brought Honda back