Automotive Focus: Honda

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Key Statistics:

• There are 939,248 Hondas currently registered in the UK.
  
  
• This represents 2.53% of UK registered vehicles.
  
  
• Hondas rank as the 12th most favoured make by UK consumers. 
  
  
• Only 30.02% of UK Ford's belong to private female owners and 54.68% by males. 8.11% are company car owned. The genders owning the remaining cars are unknown.
  
  
• 63.07% of Hondas are 3 or 5 door Hatchbacks, 20.22% are 2 or 4 door saloons and 15.08% are Estates.
  
  
• 13.06% of Honda owners have chosen to put private plates on their vehicle.
  
  
• 1.31% of Hondas are classified as Imports.
  
  
• 78.56% of Hondas are manual transmission and 21.44% are automatic.
  
  
• The top 10 locations to see Hondas are: Birmingham, Glasgow, Stockport, Slough, Reading, Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Bristol and Guildford. Together these locations contain 19.63% of all Hondas.
  
  
• By far the most popular model is the Honda Civic, making up 47.86% of the Honda market.
  
  
• The top two favoured colours are Silver/Aluminium (31.07%) and Blue (22.42%) which together make up 53.49% of all Hondas. Cars that are Red (12.29%) and Black (12.13%) follow behind.
  
  
• 20.65% are less than 24 months old and 39.37% are younger than 4 years old. 19.27% are older than 10 years. 
  
  
• 36.39% have an engine size less than 1549 while 27.89% have an engine size between 1550 and 1949. The remaining 35.72% have engine sizes greater than 1950.

This analysis has been performed by GMAP using current market statistics from the anonymised DVLA Parc data.