Honda became the third-largest automaker in the U.S.

Honda became the third-largest automaker in the U.S.

Japanese group Honda Motor became the third largest automaker in the U.S., overtaking the company Toyota (the third brand in the U.S. sales) and Concern Chrysler, which is almost all of their machines produce in North America.

This year, Honda has already released 555,734 vehicles in the U.S., and in North America - 756 788. For comparison, in the same U.S. conveyors Chrysler has gone 468,440 cars, and production toyotovskih plants was 430,535 units.

More Honda in the U.S. has collected only to Ford and General Motors.

In addition, Honda now produces more cars in the U.S. than at home in Japan - according to the first quarter of fiscal year 2010.

Within the U.S. at Honda has 10 plants, 2 plant under construction. In addition to these there are 14 design centers and research. In total these enterprises employ about 27,000 people.