Honda Announces Return to Nearly 100% Production Soon

Honda announced plans earlier this week for the accelerated recovery of its auto production in North America following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Honda will increase production volume at its North American automobile plants to a rate of 100 per cent of its original production plan in August, for all models except the 2012 Civic.  

As the supply of parts from Japan improves, production will ramp-up in August on a step-by-step, plant-by-plant and model-by-model basis, with production returning to 100 per cent of the original plan, including the 4-cylinder Accord, CR-V and Acura RDX, as well as all V-6 models including the Accord, Accord Crosstour, Odyssey, Pilot, Ridgeline, Acura TL and the Canadian-built Acura MDX and ZDX.\

Production of the all-new 2012 Civic lineup will continue at a reduced rate of approximately 50 per cent due to the limited supply of key components.  However, this situation continues to be evaluated and full production is expected to resume sometime in the fall, with plans to meet anticipated strong demand for the fuel-efficient Civic lineup.  

“We are pleased to see a positive turnaround represented by this significant improvement in our production situation,” said Jerry Chenkin, executive vice president of Honda Canada Inc.  “Throughout this crisis, Honda has been working hard to achieve a speedy recovery, while maintaining a focus on our longer-term plans for continued growth in sales and production in order to meet the growing needs of our customers.  We thank our customers and dealers for their understanding in these challenging times while we resume vehicle production to regular levels as quickly as we can.”