Honda plants produced a record number of vehicles in 2007 in the US (1,015,462 units) and in North America (1,432,731 units) – including all-time best performances by four of its six auto plants in the region.
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It was the third straight record result and fourth consecutive year of continuous production growth for Honda in the US and North America, and the first time that US auto production exceeded 1m units in a single year.
As a result, production in North America totalled about 76% of American Honda’s record automobiles sales in 2007. The company is targeting local production equal to roughly 80% of its annual US sales volume, with its seventh North American auto plant coming on line later this year.
Total North American production of Honda and Acura vehicles rose 3.4% in 2007 with individual plant records set by the Marysville, Ohio, plant (up 2.3% to 458,842 units), the East Liberty, Ohio, plant (up 1.9% to 242,475 units) and the Lincoln, Alabama plant (up 9.1% to 314,145 units). Production at the company’s two plants in Alliston, Ontario, increased 0.9% to 390,580 vehicles, but was shy by a little more than 2,000 units of the plants’ production record set in 2004.
Production at Honda’s El Salto, Mexico, automobile plant was up 10.1% to 26,689 vehicles for the year.
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By GlobalDataHonda’s US plants topped the one-million unit mark for the first time in 2007 in a year that the automaker marked the 25th anniversary of local car production (it began with motorcycles in 1979). The 1,015,462 vehicles produced at Honda’s three US plants in 2007 was an increase of 4.2% from the previous year’s record of 974,380 units.
During 2007 Honda launched a new Accord and added production of two light truck models: the CR-V at East Liberty and the Acura RD-X at Marysville. Production at the El Salto, Mexico plant was shifted from Accords to CR-Vs, and capacity was raised from 30,000 to 50,000 vehicles a year.
Honda also shifted production of the Honda Pilot SUV from Alliston, Ontario, to Lincoln, Alabama, making Alabama the sole source for both Odyssey and Pilot production and bringing the plant to its full capacity of 300,000 vehicles and engines per year.
The move also enabled the automaker to meet increasing demand for fuel efficient Civics, by adding production to the Alliston Plant 2 that also produces the Ridgeline and Acura MDX. It was the first time the plant had built passenger cars since beginning production in 1998.
Honda will open its seventh North American auto plant this fall in Greensburg, Indiana, helping bring North American production capacity to 1.62m units annually. Honda Manufacturing of Indiana will begin production of Civics this spring with a planned annual production capacity of 200,000 units.
A new engine plant is also being constructed by Honda of Canada in Alliston, Ontario, that will produce 200,000 four-cylinder engines to supply vehicle production in Canada.
