Honda · 1980–2025
Honda Ballade
The Honda Ballade (Japanese: ホンダ・バラード, Hepburn: Honda Barādo) is a subcompact automobile built by Honda of Japan. It began as a four-door higher equipment content version of the Civic in 1980. The Ballade was developed at the same time the Honda Vigor appeared, which was a higher content Honda Accord. In Japan, the Ballade was sold exclusively at Honda Verno dealerships alongside the Vigor, Prelude, CR-X, and Quint. In Europe, the first generation Ballade was manufactured under license by British Leyland and sold as the Triumph Acclaim.
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Generations & variants
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UK vehicles on the road
1 licensed and 29 SORN (30 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 51 |
| 2015 | 46 |
| 2016 | 43 |
| 2017 | 41 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 37 |
| 2020 | 35 |
| 2021 | 31 |
| 2022 | 29 |
| 2023 | 29 |
| 2024 | 30 |
| 2025 | 30 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q979559CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_BalladeCC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1368148196 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.