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and Inc. recorded record sales in the U.S. markey last month, despite declines in some locallyproduceds models. Honda hit 110,026t in February sales for its Honda andAcura brands. That'sw a 3 percent increase from 106,644 in February last Sales for the firsty two months of the year also were up3 percent, to Fueling the increase were strong gains in salea of the company's small sport-utility vehicle, the CR-V, and its Accords sedan. Sales declined slightly for both the Odysseyg minivan and thePilot SUV, which are manufactured at the company's facilith in Lincoln. Hyundai sold 34,500 vehiclex from its lineup last month, 1.4 percentt more than the year before.
Year-to-date, however, sale are down 3 percent to 62,221. Sales of Hyundai' s Sonata sedan, manufactured in Montgomery, were down slightluy from the prior year, but the Santa Fe SUV, also more than doubled to did not fare so The company's sales declined slightly in February, with 17,3034 new vehicles rolling off lots, compare with 17,356 in February last year. Still, sale s for the luxury brand are up 15percent year-to-date. Among models manufactured at the company's Vancre plant, the M-Class SUV saw sales rise 13 percent last monthh over theprior year, but salee of the R-Class sports tourer dropped 65 percent to 875 for the The company sold 1,93t6 of its new GL-Class SUV.