Honda Assembly Canada & Mexico : 2006-15

Honda Alliston, Ontario, Canada

Honda make cars in both Canada and Mexico, in three plants. It started ion 1986 in Canada and 1996 in Mexico. Volume has built gradually but consistently.

Honda Canadian plant at Alliston, Ontario was up and running in 1987, making the Accord medium sized car temporarily but by 1989 the Civic small sedan had taken over. Nothing changed until 1996, when the Acura EL compact sedan was added. Two years later the Odyssey mini van joined the team, followed in another two years by the Acura MDX medium crossover. When the Honda Pilot medium SUV was introduced in 2001, there were five models being made at the Alliston facility.

Then gradually Honda models were dropped back to one in 2009, the Civic. That year the very unusual Acura ZDX mid-sized 5-door liftback was added. Production was miniscule and was soon finished. The other two Acura models ended too. At this time the CR-V medium SUV was introduced, so that Alliston ended up with two models.

Data is in thousands, so just add three zeros.

		Canada
	Br	Honda						Acura
	Yr	CRV	Civ	Rid	Pil	Ody	Acc	MDX	EL	ZDX
									CSX
	87						16
	88		38				12
	89		87
	90		106
	91		99
	92		104
	93		101
	94		108
	95		106
	96		142						3
	97		154						11
	98		159			12			8
	99		168			99			8
	00		159			147		13	8
	01		168			149		45	9
	02		161		64	69		59	8
	03		187		117	15		67	6
	04		191		123	8		67	4
	05		186	61	66			68	6
	06		194	57	76			54	6
	07		246	55	17			69	3
	08		299	25				56	3
	09		225					33	2	1
	10		208					64	2	5
	11		179					52	1	2
	12	115	226					68		1
	13	186	215					7
	14	199	194
	15	206	179

In 1996 a new plant at El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico commenced assembling the Accord (in tiny numbers). Little changed until 2007 when the Civic replaced it and numbers lifted a notch. Extra volume was required and a new plant was operational in 2014 at Celaya, Guanajuato. It makes the small Fit (Jazz) hatchback and small crossover HR-V models.

		Mexico					Total
	Br	Honda					Production
	Yr	HRV	CRV	Fit	Acc		Hon	Acu	Com
	87						16		16
	88						50		50
	89						87		87
	90						106		106
	91						99		99
	92						104		104
	93						101		101
	94						108		108
	95						106		106
	96				1		143	3	146
	97				3		157	11	168
	98				7		178	8	186
	99				10		277	8	285
	00				19		325	21	346
	01				24		341	54	395
	02				25		319	67	386
	03				22		341	73	414
	04				22		344	71	415
	05				23		336	74	410
	06				24		351	60	411
	07		11		16		345	72	417
	08		51				375	59	434
	09		48				273	36	309
	10		55				263	71	334
	11		45				224	55	279
	12		62				403	69	472
	13		63				464	7	471
	14		62	83			538		538
	15	100	63	44			592		592

For the last 15 years, production volume in Canada has been relatively level, with Mexico picking up recently. Canadians worry about their car industry being lost, but that seems unlikely. I can't see it growing however. Mexico on the other hand is finally growing although its two plants are still producing less than Canada'a one.