Honda’s production and sales company for Mexico, Honda de Mexico, announced that they will be building an all-new assembly plant for upcoming subcompacts. An approximate $800 million investment will go into the building of the plant that is scheduled to open in 2014. Honda expects the plant to produce an average output of 200,000 units annually and it will supply vehicles for both the Mexican and North American market.
“With growing demand for fuel-efficient vehicles, this plant will increase Honda’s ability to meet customer needs for subcompact vehicles from within North America,” said Tetsuo Iwamura, president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and chief operating officer for Honda’s North America Region. Located in a suburb of Celaya, Guanajuato, the plant will cover 5.66 square meters and should house up to 3,200 employees. It will be Honda’s eighth North American plant and tenth assembly line.
Currently, the smallest Honda produced in North America is the Civic. According to Honda’s own press release, the new Mexico plant will have the job of producing subcompacts. Since the Civic is a compact, the smaller Fit or an all-new model could be built in North America by 2014. This new plant will bring Honda’s North American annual production up to approximately 1.83 million units.
Source: Honda
