Talk from The Top: Honda CEO Hiroyuki Yoshino builds vast global network ...

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New investment in China, Alabama and England.

 

lmao.. BIG ol PIMP

 

He's not very talkative. One liner responses. Gay.

 

Well, what do you want?

 

I want to know the status of importing the new R models over to NA. Clearly, other manufacturers have caught up already on the youth oriented performance market.

 

Interesting. I don't like the China idea. They are only doing that cause it's cheap labor.

 

from bike motors to motor bikes (30 million Honda 50's in the US) to

WORLD DOMINATION

he's done well

 

Actually they are doing it so they don't get left behind in the fastest growing market in the world...even BMW is setting up a plant (in Laoning province).

I've ridden in several of the 3.0l V6 Accords that are built in Guangzhou, China and honestly, cannot tell them apart from the ones sold here.

 

Globalization? Not even close, lookt at GM's seizure of other car companies and Ford/VW already had plants in China way before Honda does.

Oh yeah...and stop having the image of China as a backward country. While everywhere's economy sinks, China is on a steady rise. Most inner city highways now are built with latest technology with 3-4 lanes.

My dad in China already owns 3 Accords (made in China) for company usage.
Same damn quality because all the plants are monitor by Japanese technicians.

I hate when movies show anything related to China is all about communist or people wearing traditional clothing, it seems like the western society simply don't want to show the modern parts of China. For example, in Rush Hour, they picked the slumps of Hong Kong and everyone in it wears clothing that my grandpa use to wear back in the 1950's.

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Does Honda need something aimed at younger buyers, like what Toyota is doing with Scion?

That could be.

You already have one product aimed at younger buyers, the Element. Do you need more?

Maybe so.

lol

 

True, Honda hasn't made as many plants and been as global as other car makers.

 

they actually were a piston ring manufacturer.....

world domination....not just yet!!


def not...

 

That's not true at all - in fact, exactly the opposite is true. In many developing countries, Honda was a pioneer - the first foreign company with local assembly plants, and the first foreign company with plants to make parts like engines and transmissions there.

They were the first Japanese company to do so in the United States as well, and unlike most such foreign ventures (such as the VW plant in Pennsylvania, now closed, which preceded Honda), they were the first to build engines and transmissions and continue to be the leader among foreign automakers in local content, in the United States as well as many other countries.

For a list of Honda's manufacturing facilities, and the year when each one was opened, click on the link below:

Asia/Oceania
South America
Europe/Middle East/Africa



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Id say.............

 

I'll put it this way. No expansion to China means almost certain economic death.
Not only for potential customers but cheap and efficient and grateful labour.

 

I am not talking about just JDM companies.........I was talking about other countries like Europe and America..but thanks for the facts.

 

Actually, what I meant was (and just edited my post above to reflect it) that in many developing countries around the world, Honda was the first foreign company (not just the first Japanese company) to build local assembly plants as well as plants to produce engines and other parts locally.