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.