Car buyers returning, but sales for Honda and other automakers still lag

Customers returned to Honda in May, though sales still lag the year-over-year numbers. The automaker Tuesday said it sold 120,977 vehicles in the month. That’s down 16.9% from May 2019, but shows a sequential improvement from March and April when sales were halved from the previous year’s marks. Honda brought furloughed workers back to its plants in May — including the operations in Marysville and East Liberty — resuming production after a seven-week pause. Located north of Dayton in Shelby…