Top ten of assembly plants in North America in 2012
Top ten of assembly plants according to their vehicle (PC + LUV) outputs:
- 1st : The Volkswagen Puebla plant, in Mexico. It is the North-American plant which produced the most vehicles in 2012. Its output amounted indeed to 609 685 vehicles.
- 2nd : The Toyota Georgetown plant (Kentucky, 554 530 vehicles).
- 3rd : The Honda Marysville plant (Ohio, 460 636 vehicles).
- 4th : The Honda Alliston plant (Ontario, 410 022 vehicles.
- 5th : The Nissan Smyrna plant (Tennessee, 404 254 vehicles).
- 6th : The Nissan Aguascalientes plant(Mexico, 383 407 vehicles).
- 7th: The Ford Dearborn plant (Michigan, 370 713 vehicles).
- 8th : The Hyundai Montgomery plant (Alabama, 362 752 vehicles).
- 9th : The Kia West Point (Georgia, 358 382 vehicles).
- 10th :The General Motors Oshawa plant (Ontario, 320 956 vehicles).
The production of these 10 plants accounted for more than 4.2 million vehicles in 2012.
It is to be noted that top ten is made up of five Japanese plants, two Korean plants, one German plant and only two American plants.
This highlights the weakness of North-American carmakers plants, much older.
