Dongfeng Honda
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Private joint venture | |
Industry | Automotive |
Founded | July 2003 (Wuhan) |
Headquarters | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Products | Automobiles |
Parent | Dongfeng Motor Corporation (50%) Honda Motor Company (50%) |
Website | www |
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Simplified Chinese | 东风本田 | ||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 東風本田 | ||||||||||||||||
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Japanese name | |||||||||||||||||
Kanji | 東風本田[note 1] | ||||||||||||||||
Hiragana | とうふうほんだ | ||||||||||||||||
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Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. (东风本田汽车有限公司) is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Wuhan, China and a 50:50 joint-venture between Dongfeng Motor Corporation and Honda Motor Company. It currently produces the Honda Civic, Honda CR-V and Honda Spirior for sale in China.
History
Dongfeng Honda was established in July 2003 with a registered capital of US$200 million.[1] Dongfeng Honda began automobile production in April 2004, with the Honda CR-V sport utility vehicle initially its only product.[1]
In February 2006 Dongfeng Honda completed a 2.8 billion yuan (US$ 340 million) expansion of its production facilities, quadrupling production capacity to 120,000 units.[2]
In May 2008 Dongfeng Honda announced plans to double production capacity to 240,000 vehicles a year, in an investment of 10 billion yen (US$95.5 million).[3][4]
Operations
Dongfeng Honda has an assembly plant in Wuhan, Hubei. The plant size is around 181,000 square metres and has a total work force of around 2,800.
The plant includes welding, painting and vehicle testing facilities. Dongfeng Honda also has an engine production plant.
Products
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Dongfeng Honda currently manufactures the following vehicles:[5]
- the Honda Civic;
- the Honda CR-V;
- the Honda Spirior; and
- the Honda Elysion; and
- the Honda Jade; and
- the Honda XR-V
See also
Notes
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External links
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- Motor vehicle manufacturers of China
- Motor vehicle assembly plants in China
- Honda factories
- Manufacturing companies established in 2003
- Joint ventures
- Dongfeng Motor joint ventures