#HondaProduction

As many automakers move production out of North America, Honda is touting the amount of cars the company has built in the U.S. 

Honda has made history, becoming the first overseas automaker to export more vehicles built in America than it imports from Japan.

Honda is looking into developing new manufacturing processes in order to make their vehicles lighter and to help lower manufacturing costs. But first, Honda plans to spend tens of billions of yen to revamp their production lines in Japan and overseas to use these new methods of manufacturing.

It hasn’t been a particularly good year for Honda, especially where it concerns its bread and butter Civic. Introduced just prior to the March 11 Tsunami and earthquake that hit Japan, supply shortages crippled production, leaving dealers starved of their best selling model in many cases.

Nearly two months after the devastating earthquake in Japan,  Honda is still reeling from the effects—and forcing to juggle production schedules in America and back home.