<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/carbuying/" rel="tag">Car Buying</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/economy/" rel="tag">Budget</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/" rel="tag">Sedan</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/crossovers-cuvs/" rel="tag">Crossover</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/honda/" rel="tag">Honda</a></p><a href="/2014/02/21/honda-accord-best-selling-car-among-individuals/#continued"><img alt="Honda Accord Retail Sales" data-caption="Honda Customers Make Four Honda Models #1 in America." data-credit="Honda" data-mep="138290" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/2584x1721+105+474/resize/628x418!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/43d0b6cbdc356333d6fd9489c1abdeb5/Retail_2013_v2.jpg" /></a><br />
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The latest round of new vehicle registration data has been good for <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/honda/">Honda</a> - three of the Japanese brand's models are retail sales leaders and the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/honda/accord/">Accord</a> was the most registered car built in America in 2013, according to the data compiled by <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/polk/">Polk</a>. In fact, 360,089 units of the family sedan were purchased by individual consumers last year, an increase of 12.2 percent.<br />
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There was also good news from the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/honda/civic/">Civic</a> and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/honda/cr-v/" style="font-size: 14px;">CR-V</a> camps, as those two models topped their respective segments in terms of retail (non-fleet) sales, with each notching over 300,000 registrations. Combined with the Accord, this trio of Hondas accounted for a whopping 1.11 million retail sales last year.<br />
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Honda spokesperson Sage Marie reflected on Polk's findings, telling <em>Autoblog</em>:

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<p>"Since it reflects actual consumer choice, it's a better measure of how competitive a product is in the marketplace. Honda's strategy of avoiding fleet sales bolsters residual values and reduces the cost of ownership for our customers."</p>
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Honda has long touted <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/07/30/honda-lowest-fleet-average-key-segments/">its avoidance of fleet sales in favor of individual retail sales</a>, and in light of this latest news from Polk, the strategy appears to be working for the brand quite well.<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/02/21/honda-accord-best-selling-car-among-individuals/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Honda says Accord is America's best-selling car among actual consumers</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/02/21/honda-accord-best-selling-car-among-individuals/">Honda says Accord is America's best-selling car among actual consumers</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblog</a> on Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:28:00 EST. Please see our <a href="/rss-term-of-use/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/02/21/honda-accord-best-selling-car-among-individuals/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/20835002/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/02/21/honda-accord-best-selling-car-among-individuals/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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