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SEMA: Fox Marketing prepping special Honda Civic Si for SEMA

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Filed under: Aftermarket , SEMA Show , Budget , Sedan , Performance , Honda SEMA is only a few weeks away, and it seems like all the little fish are being let out of the pond first. We’ve heard about visitations from Focuses and Fiestas , Genesis Coupes and Velosters and classic Ford racers , now add the 2012 Honda Civic Si by Fox Marketing to the roll call. And full disclosure: Autoblog will have a sticker on this car. You know the drill by now: start with an economy car, change everything, voila, SEMA here we come.

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Report: Honda to cut Japanese production in half over next decade

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Filed under: Japan , Plants/Manufacturing , Honda Last year, 34 percent of all Honda vehicles sold around the globe were produced in Japan, but that number could change drastically over the next decade. Reuters reports that Honda CEO Takanobu Ito told Japan’s Asahi newspaper that the automaker will drop its exports to 10-20 percent over the next 10 years. The reason for the switch has everything to do with the ill effects of currency swings. To prevent this from continuing to hurt Honda’s bottom line, executives reportedly plan to make 80-90 percent of its vehicles in the main markets where they are sold

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Official: Honda announces new Mexican plant to build small cars for North America

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Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing , Honda Honda has just announced it will build a new assembly plant in a suburb of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. This will be Honda’s eighth assembly plant in North America and third in Mexico, and is being built for the production of “fuel-efficient subcompact vehicles” for the Mexican and North American markets. The new plant will cost Honda $800 million to build, be completed in 2014 and add 3,200 jobs to the region when its operational. While we don’t yet know what it will build, the plant’s estimated annual capacity will be 200,000 units, which raises Honda’s North American production capacity to 1.83 million vehicles annually.

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Would you wait to buy a Japanese car? [w/poll]

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Filed under: Japan , Plants/Manufacturing , Honda , Nissan , Subaru , Toyota It may be some time before consumers in line for a new Japanese car get their hands on their new ride. Besides killing thousands of people, shocking the nation’s infrastructure and setting off the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, the Japanese earthquake disaster has halted car production on the island indefinitely. Added to that, the tsunami resulting from the quake destroyed thousands of cars and trucks awaiting export.

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