AutoAsia reports that Honda will launch a supermini based on the Fit platform in Thailand by end 2002. The report says that this is part of Honda’s ‘Global Supply Networks’ strategy.
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Satoshi Toshida, president and CEO of Bangkok-based Asian Honda, told AutoAsia that Honda’s Thai plant ‘will start production of a new PC based on Honda’s Global Small Platform for the domestic market in the fourth quarter’.
The report adds that Honda engineers are currently developing the future Thai made Fit/Jazz version in Japan and it will be equipped with an advanced i-VTEC powerplant.
Production of the new model is expected to start in Thailand in late summer in time for an October launch.
Honda will export the Thai-made Fit to neighbouring ASEAN countries as part of its regional supply strategy. That will ease capacity problems in Japan, where the car has been hugely popular.
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