Honda Wants To Beat Ford With 90% US-Built Vehicles, Report Says

Honda is responding to the Trump administration’s new tariffs on imported automobiles by working to increase production significantly in the U.S., Nikkei reported.

Honda currently builds around 70% of the vehicles it sells in the U.S. locally, with much of the rest coming from Canada and Mexico.

Tesla is the only full-line automaker that doesn’t import any vehicles into the U.S, while Ford builds nearly 80% of its U.S. market vehicles domestically.

Honda’s best selling CR-V is built in both Canada and Ohio today, but the report says it will consolidate assembly of U.S. market vehicles in the U.S, while production of the smaller HR-V will move from Mexico to the U.S.

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Earlier this year, Reuters reported that a plan to move Civic hybrid production from Indiana to Mexico had been canceled. The Civic hatchback, including hybrid versions, are built in Indiana while the Civic sedan is manufactured in Canada.

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Honda declined to comment on the Nikkei report, which said the plan included adding third shifts and weekend shifts at some its existing U.S. automotive assembly plants. Honda also builds all but one of the vehicles sold in the U.S. by its Acura brand locally, with the new ADX coming from the same Mexican factory that manufactures the HR-V.