OREANDA-NEWS. February 04, 2015. Honda Motor Co Ltd and its two Chinese joint ventures sold 59,065 vehicles in China in January, down 6.6 percent from a year earlier, the Japanese automaker said on Tuesday.

This follows a 40.1 percent rise in December and a 12.1 percent fall in November.

Japanese carmakers in China have faced the twin challenges of a slowing economy and political tension between Beijing and Tokyo over the past year.