Honda Global Production Car/LCV By Nation : 2011-14

The new HR-V gets people dreaming

Honda is an independently minded company, with few - if any - collaborations. It is very successful in Asia and North America but is floundering in Europe. It has a conservative corporate culture, although it wants to shake off that image with its cars. It was considered innovative and interesting before, so why not be that way now?

Honda has 5.4% of the global market in production, up from 5.2% in 2013. Although the data includes LCVs, it is just about exclusively a passenger car making company. 54% of the production volume is in Asia, 43% within the Americas and the remaining 3% from Europe. It has worked hard in Latin America in the last few years to increase its presence there, but refuses to buy into the discount war that is the European scene.

The Civic Hatch certainly has the style

68% of units made are from three countries but Honda is not as China dependent as some car makers, which is healthy. The UK is to become a Civic model producer only (5 door Hatchback) with global reach to add volume and presumably greater profitability through this simplification.

	11	12	13	14	Nation	2011	2012	2013	2014	%
	1	1	1	1	USA	823,650	1,219,326	1,309,917	1,268,904	28%
	2	2	2	2	Japan	710,621	1,029,313	840,650	958,179	21%
	3	3	3	3	China	646,208	617,399	788,161	856,073	19%
	4	4	4	4	Canada	234,051	409,949	408,124	393,007	9%
	9	8	8	5	India	44,767	75,768	118,997	184,656	4%
	10	9	9	6	Indonesia	41,694	66,426	87,644	160,430	4%
	8	10	10	7	Mexico	45,426	61,813	63,172	145,213	3%
	5	5	5	8	Thailand	103,427	225,094	273,156	143,434	3%
	7	7	7	9	Brazil	82,458	135,894	136,257	127,508	3%
	6	6	6	10	UK	97,459	165,606	140,094	119,995	3%
	11	11	11	11	Malaysia	23,540	29,373	47,957	75,484	2%
	12	13	13	12	Taiwan	19,495	19,764	23,876	25,516	1%
	13	14	14	13	Pakistan	14,620	14,841	23,086	22,200	0%
	14	12	12	14	Turkey	12,341	21,850	14,813	11,633	0%
	15	16	16	15	Philippines	6,379	7,536	7,360	8,040	0%
	17	15	15	16	Argentina	895	8,492	11,182	6,756	0%
	16	17	17	17	Vietnam	1,985	2,413	3,944	6,741	0%
					Total	2,909,016	4,110,857	4,298,390	4,513,769	5%

Data source: OICA.