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Last year, Honda has built more cars in its Alabama plant, Indiana and Ohio he did against Japan 826 440 710 621, according to Automotive News Data and Japan automobile manufacturers Association is the first US production of Honda has exceeded production in its home country.
But this is a unique situation Honda Ten automakers belonging to foreign cars meet in the U S and the majority of them build most of their cars at home.
Honda never expected that things unfold that way spokesman Ed Miller said the automaker has never had an objective one way or the other, but natural disasters last year forced all automakers to cut production across Asia.
Indeed, Honda assembled about 40 percent more cars in Japan in 2010, but even then, the automaker has almost equaled that figure with US production What we are trying to do is to match our capacity and all the overhead that goes with customer demand, Miller said, but, you know, it is never an exact science.
It Sá science that contemporary Honda did not feel obliged to learn five Japanese automakers Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Subaru assemble cars in the US In 2011, they built almost 1 6 million vehicles light here that his small figure compared to what they build in Japan Even in the year reduced the 2011 disaster, the five automakers built 5 to 7 million vehicles, excluding heavy trucks and commercial vehicles, in their country of origin.
Source Automotive News Data and Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Figures exclude commercial vehicles and heavy trucks.
Japanese automakers could build more cars in Japan but Korean and German manufacturers have a wider gap between what they build at home and what they build in the US Hyundai-Kia built the 624.478 cars stateside last year, as against 3 3 million in South Korea three German BMW car manufacturers, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen built 450.287 passenger cars stateside in 2011 the leaders of the three automakers wouldn t disclose how many cars they built in Germany last year, but the German Association of the automotive industry estimates German manufacturers gathered some 5 9 million vehicles in Germany in 2011. He Sá all postwar high time for the country.
Why some of the difference of the reason lies in market share in 2011, Japanese brands harvested 36 percent of all sales in the United States for new cars, according to Automotive News European carmakers, however, were 9 8 percent it ten years ago, Japanese brands had on May 28 percent of the market, while European brands had only 7 6 percent.
If you are a car manufacturer abroad that art to open a new market, first, the production on this market doesn t make sense, said Bernard Swiecki, a senior project in Ann Arbor, Center Michigan for automotive research this assembly plant doesn t make sense until you from a level of investment of a critical mass in sales.
BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen operate four passenger vehicle assembly plants in the United States than a dozen plants for automakers based on Japan The first German factory BMW Spartanburg plant, South Carolina - opened in 1994 and Honda's Marysville, Ohio, plant was churning Accords and civics for 12 years.
European brands have been in the US for decades, but low sales limited production more so even cars that are sold here are imported largely of Japanese car production, however, usually the United States following William Duncan sellers, who heads the US office JAMA, noted that Japanese automakers meet nearly 70 percent of the vehicles they sell in the United States in North America that the production ratio was relatively constant varying between 62 and 68 percent over the past 15 years, JAMA said that beats the European and Korean automakers, but falls short Detroit automakers who build almost every vehicle they sell in the United States North America is certainly little aversion to happen here.
Produced in a region and selling in another are not always the best approach when making supply lines into consideration, shipping, different regulatory standards, especially consumer preferences, investment where Duncan the market seems to be a common, but not exclusive strategy for most automakers in the world.
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