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Figures 2006 Honda Year-End Summary Figures Review

The Asia-Oceania region is of growing strategic importance to Honda.

	2006 Worldwide	2006 Asia-Oceania
Motorcycle	12.7 million customers	9.3  million customers
Automobile	3.55 million customers	0.32 million customers
Power Products	6.4  million customers	0.81million customers
Total	22.65 million customers	10.43 million customers
		(46 percent)

Annual regional automobile production capacity will increase from 345,000 units today to 500,000 units by 2010.

Honda’s exports from Thailand in 2006 reached Baht 85,000 million, up 30 percent over 2005. In 2007 exports are expected to hit Baht 100,000 million, up 17 percent over this year.

As Honda’s Asia-Oceania regional headquarters, Thailand will play an increasingly important role.

Honda is positively considering Thailand’s eco-car project.

Insight of Honda in Asia-Oceania :

Motorcycle :

Regional sales

2006  expect	930,000 units
2007  target	11,200,000 units

Thailand sales by A.P. Honda Co., Ltd.

2006 expect	1,320,000 units
2007 target	1,400,000 units

Honda is expanding production capacity to meet growing demand :

2006 expansion capacity

Philippines	200,000 units
Pakistan	100,000 units
India	730,000 units

2007 expansion capacity

Vietnam	140,000 units
India	500,000 units

Power product :

Thailand is Honda’s largest power products export base in the world.

Thailand

production	1,870,000 units
production more than	2,000,000 units

Automobile :

Regional sales

2006 expect	320,000 units (up 6%)
2007 target	360,000 units

Thailand sales by Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

2006  expect	67,000 units (up 15%)
2007  target	70,000 units

Honda is expanding production capacity to meet growing demand :

2006 expansion capacity

Vietnam	10,000 units
Pakistan	20,000 units

2007 expansion capacity

India

50,000 units