Honda Hybrid Sales Reach October Record as CR-V Leads
American Honda sold 119,952 Honda and Acura vehicles in the United States during October 2026, an 8.0% increase from October 2025 and the company’s best October since 2020. The Honda brand supplied most of the growth, led by record October sales for light trucks and hybrid models. Acura’s results were more mixed: SUV volume increased, but the brand’s total October sales declined 2.5%.
The November 3 report covers U.S. sales, not global deliveries, dealer orders or production. Its records are specific to the month of October; they are not claims that October 2026 was Honda’s highest-volume month of any kind.
American Honda’s combined light-truck total reached 83,559 vehicles, up 9.6%, while passenger-car sales rose 4.5% to 36,393. Through the first 10 months of 2026, combined Honda and Acura sales reached 1,269,213 vehicles, up 5.0% from the same period in 2025.
October sales at a glance
| Measure | October 2026 | Year-over-year change | Important context |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Honda total | 119,952 | +8.0% | Best October since 2020 |
| Honda brand | 109,162 | +9.1% | Honda accounts for 91% of combined October volume |
| Honda light trucks | 74,865 | +10.5% | Honda-brand October record |
| Honda hybrids | 32,519 | +5.1% | Honda-brand October record |
| Acura brand | 10,790 | -2.5% | Year-to-date Acura sales remain up 3.7% |
| Acura SUVs | 8,694 | +1.9% | MDX growth offset weaker Acura car volume |
CR-V carries more than half its volume as a hybrid
Honda sold 34,815 CR-Vs in October, 9.8% more than a year earlier and a record for the model in October. Hybrid trims accounted for 18,534 of those vehicles, or 53% of the CR-V mix. That means the CR-V alone represented about 57% of Honda’s 32,519 hybrid sales for the month.
The broader hybrid result was up 5.1% from October 2025. Honda says hybrid trims accounted for 36% of Civic sales and 45% of Accord sales. Those figures describe the hybrid share within each model line, not each model’s share of all Honda hybrid sales.
The 32,519-unit total is an October record, but it is below the more than 42,000 hybrids Honda reported in May 2026. Calendar effects, incentives, inventory and model availability can move monthly sales, so one month does not establish a long-term change in demand by itself.
SUVs and utility vehicles drive Honda-brand growth
Honda-brand light-truck sales reached 74,865, up 10.5%. The HR-V set an October record with 12,353 sales, 11.0% above the prior year. Pilot volume was 9,425, while Odyssey sales rose 32.2% to 7,202 and Ridgeline sales increased 7.9% to 4,410.
The Passport also set an October record, rising 14.9% to 5,419. Honda says TrailSport trims made up more than 80% of Passport sales. That unusually high mix suggests the off-road-styled version has become central to the model’s retail positioning, though the company did not publish transaction prices or profit by trim.
Honda’s sales report arrived as the Passport name was also receiving attention at SEMA. Chiefs Review recently covered the 1,300-plus-horsepower Passport Baja Spec race truck; that competition vehicle is unrelated to the production Passport totals reported here.
Acura SUVs rise while the brand total falls
Acura sold 10,790 vehicles in October, 2.5% fewer than a year earlier. The company’s headline emphasizes that Acura remains up 3.7% year to date, but the monthly decline is important context.
Acura SUVs increased 1.9% to 8,694. MDX sales jumped 54.3% to 5,232, and the ADX contributed 2,508. The strong SUV showing did not fully offset a 17.3% decline in Acura passenger-car sales, which totaled 2,096 for the month.
American Honda says the Integra, ADX and MDX have each already exceeded their full-year 2025 volume, while combined ADX and Integra sales are up 61% year to date. The company also makes segment-share claims for those models, but it does not identify the outside dataset or methodology in this release, so those claims cannot be independently checked from the sales table alone.
The sales mix also provides context for Acura’s future product plan. Chiefs Review previously reported on Acura’s three-SUV roadmap, including a hybrid RDX replacement. October’s results show why SUVs remain the center of that strategy, even though a single month cannot predict demand for models arriving in 2028 and later.
What the numbers do—and do not—show
The report demonstrates that Honda’s U.S. growth in October was broad enough to include cars, light trucks and hybrids. It also shows that hybrid trims are no longer a small niche within the CR-V, Civic and Accord lineups.
It does not disclose retail versus fleet volume for every model, incentives, inventory days, average transaction prices, dealer profitability or production constraints. It also does not separate plug-in vehicles from conventional hybrids because Honda’s highlighted 32,519 figure is specifically for Honda-brand hybrid-electric models.
For shoppers, the main practical implication is availability rather than an immediate product change: high sales and high hybrid mix can affect local stock, discounts and delivery timing, but the national totals do not establish what a specific dealer has on hand. The figures should be read as a snapshot of U.S. market activity, not a forecast or buying recommendation.
Featured image: 2026 Honda CR-V Sport Touring Hybrid, the model line that supplied 18,534 hybrid sales in October. Official American Honda press image; illustrative of the production vehicle, not a photo of a sales event. © American Honda Motor Co., Inc., supplied for journalistic editorial use. Image source; editorial-use license notice. No changes were made other than WordPress image scaling.