REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Honda car sales surged 68 percent to 82,647 units in the first half of this year from 49,342 units in the same period last year.

"Our sales grew above the average recorded by car makers in the country," Jonfis Fandy, the marketing director of PT Honda Prospect Motor (HPM), the producer and agent of Honda cars in the country, said.

Jonfis said car sales grew by an average of only 7 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2014 to a total of 642,311 units from 602,215 units in the January June period in 2013.

He attributed the surge in sales of Honda cars to Honda new low cost green car (LCGC) product, Mobilio, the sales of which reached 46,446 units or 56.1 percent of the total sales of Honda cars in the firs half of 2014.