| In a significant milestone after more than
two decades of automotive manufacturing in the United States, Honda has
produced its 10 millionth car in the United States.
Of these, 8.85 million were purchased in America, the rest being sold
in Canada and Mexico, and also exported to customers in Japan and other
countries.
Now with three car plants in America, Honda was the first Japanese automaker
to produce vehicles in the United States – beginning with a plant
near Marysville, Ohio, where production of Honda Accords began on 1 Nov
1982. This was followed in 1989 by a plant in nearby East Liberty, Ohio.
In 2001, Honda’s plant near Lincoln, Alabama started production of
the Honda Odyssey minivan.
Production capacity of the three auto plants is 830,000 cars and light-trucks
per year but this is being increased to 980,000 units per year. Honda
also builds more than 1.25 million car engines per year at plants in Anna,
Ohio and at the Alabama plant – and 1 million automatic transmissions
annually at a plant in Russells Point, Ohio. With additional auto plants
in Alliston, Ontario, Canada, and El Salto, Mexico, Honda’s current
total North American automobile capacity is 1.25 million cars and light-trucks
per year.
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