Honda cutting production again

[Bozita]

Source: Dayton Business Journal

Friday, December 12, 2008 - 11:07 AM EST
Honda cutting production again


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Honda Motor Co. Ltd. is reducing production again in response to dwindling sales.



The automaker will cut another 119,000 units from its plan across all North American facilities in the remaining months of its fiscal year, ending March 31, including a 58,000-vehicle cut at its Marysville and East Liberty auto assembly plants. Honda will also make cuts at its newly opened Civic plant in Greensburg, Ind.

The company previously announced a 38,000-unit cut in October and an 18,000-unit reduction in November.

Honda’s sales for the first 11 months of the calendar year were down 6 percent to 1.34 million vehicles, from 1.42 million through the same period of 2007, including monthly declines of 24 percent in September, 25 percent in October and 32 percent in November.

The 175,000 total cut in planned production is a 12 percent drop from Honda’s original plan for the year of 1.46 million vehicles.

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Doesn't sound to me like Honda is making cars that Americans are willing to buy.

Perhaps it's a quality thing.

[benld74]

1. Naw they just want to keep the demand up

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Quick! Replace all executives and cut their pay, cut...

workers' pay, insist they submit a plan to make cars Americans want to buy...

(Huh? Oh, OK. Never mind)

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Don't Worry Honda! The Southern Republicans will Save You!!!!

:puke:

[dipsydoodle]

4. Doesn't sound...............

Your cynicism is a bit out of place. Their drop in demand is probably the same % as all manufacturers. You might as well say that the American manufacturers are not making cars which Americans are willing to buy.

Honda are closing their UK factory for 2 months and Mercedes are doing the same in Germany. BMW had already cut back on production. I suppose you'll now say the Mercedes isn't making cars that German's buy.

You might do better to ask yourself the question which country started this fucking mess.

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. Yup, agree, they make crappy cars, don't they?

I wouldn't buy one even before this, seriously. And I really hate Subarus - I had one that was a total lemon for 5 years until I couldn't stand it anymore.

This whole bias against American cars is so driven by media and peer pressure. Their crime as I see it was building vehicles bigger again, after they were already small and fuel efficient before, but that was by public demand (and driven by tax breaks on big vehicles).

So whose fault is this really? I see the public, the corporatists in Congress, and the banks - still not making loans. The usual suspects.

[tomreedtoon]

6. They may. Toyota doesn't.

I've driven both Toyota and Detroit Rust. I prefer Toyotas. They are more comfortable, and they last when taken care of. American cars fall apart.

And I don't know why UAW guys get angry when I say that. They could make cars as good as Toyotas if they were allowed to. The car company management doesn't want to. Why aren't they angry at the real people responsible for the decline and fall of the industry, the CEO's and their flunky staffs?

[WriteDown]

7. You sir....

Are EXACTLY the problem and why no bailout will ever work. Go check out JD Powers and their reviews of your so-called inferior American cars.

[Waiting For Everyman]

10. It's pure propaganda.

It doesn't wash with the facts. The only truly lousy cars I've ever owned were ALL foreign... Japanese, Swedish, British.

I've owned a lot of cars, and driven a lot more cars, having worked around mechanics and dealers off and on throughout my life for 40+ years. All kinds. American cars are certainly NO WORSE than any others, and from my (comparatively) extensive experience driving them, better.

And nobody can design like Americans, even though they've chosen to imitate the foreign models, for reasons I will never understand. This "European styling" they all look like now, is ugly as SHIT.

I predict that when Detroit is retooled for the next generation of cars, that they will kick ass over any other makes. I have no doubt of that. And I think all this opposition is because the other manufacturers and their sycophants KNOW THAT and are dead scared of competing with a revamped Big 3.

And they SHOULD BE. Their day of demise will come - and sooner than they'd like.

[MonkeyKnifeFight12]

11. Fuck that

I don't buy a car to be patriotic. I've got a 12 year old Honda Civic and it gets better gas mileage than any new American car I can find info for online (at least from the 'Big 3'). I never even knew exactly how pathetic the fuel efficiency of American cars was until i poked around just now. They consider 30mpg as something to applaud. Prius' make up about half of the cars i see on the road in my area. Maybe if American companies made a fuel efficient hybrid people would actually buy some of their cars. It's no media conspiracy.

[bluecollarcharlie]

13. You probably live in California.

Land of the dense happy people. Tell me why is it that your state gets the right to tell everyone what to drive? Oh, and thanks for helping to drive the nation's economy off a cliff.

[tomreedtoon]

12. I am my own J.D. Powers.

Why should I trust an apologist for the Detroit Rustmakers? I trust my own driving skills and feel, and I know that American cars are crap.

[RobinA]

9. No, They Don't

I've had four Hondas, getting ready for my fifth. Have spent money on anything other than maintenance and brakes on only two of them. I've got nothing against American cars, but they just don't seem to have a car I want. Did drive a Focus for work for about 7 months. Great in the snow, far better than the Civic, but otherwise a bit rough by comparison.

[Fumesucker]

14. The bias against American cars began when the domestics really did make crappy cars for decades..

A good reputation can be ruined in an instant and Detroit ruined theirs starting sometimes in the mid seventies, crappy car production continued at the domestics for at least two decades.

An automobile is the second most expensive thing most people will ever purchase, with the first being a home.

Burn someone on such a huge investment of their hard earned money and they don't forget and they don't forgive.

[mbperrin]

8. OH NOSE! It's those danged overpaid yune-yun autoworkers

ruining sales again!

Quick, won't someone demand their workers take a pay cut so as to improve sales!!???