Sales by Honda Motor and its two Chinese joint ventures fell 5.5% year on year in August to 52,513 vehicles, the automaker said.

That followed a 22.7% year on year fall in July and a 15.8% increase in June, ET Auto reported.

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Honda’s Beijing-based spokeswoman, Natsuno Asanuma, said the decline in August sales was due to dealers adjusting their stocks ahead of planned launches of key models this year.

Honda is due to release the Vezel and the Spirior in November and the XR-V towards the end of the year, Asanuma said.

Sales in the first eight months of the year rose 5.2% to 445,472 vehicles.

Honda will double the number of car models it sells in China over the next two years to increase its market share, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported in May.

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Honda has car joint ventures with Dongfeng Motor Group and Guangzhou Automobile and plans to sell 900,000 cars in China this year, up 18.9% on the 2013 tally.