Honda Cars India ltd has confirmed that Honda Civic and CR-V will be discontinued in India as they are stopping production at the Greater Noida plant.
The Japanese automaker is now shifting its entire production from the Greater Noida plant to the Tapukara Plant in Rajasthan. Honda said that it is consolidating operations in India to make it sustainable and efficient and the line-up will be shrunk to just 4 models- Honda City, WR-V, Amaze and Jazz.
“We are consolidating our all production to Tapukara plant and will stop production at the Greater Noida plant. The company already had a major crunch in terms of market penetration and was operating only in the 70% of the market segment; with this it will further go down. Eventually, the company will have only four models in India - City, WR-V, Amaze and Jazz,” said Rajesh, Senior VP and Director, HCIL, in a conversation with ET Auto.
The Tapukara plant currently employees 5,500 employees and boasts a total capacity of 1.8 lakh which will meet the automaker’s current production needs. Honda is currently retailing around 9,500 units a month.
The Greater Noida plant was manufacturing Honda City, Civic and CR-V. Honda City’s production has already been shifted to the Tapukara plant and the automaker has stopped the sales of Civic and CR-V with immediate effect.
Honda Cars India’s market share had slipped to 3.7% in FY20 from 5.5% in FY19. The automaker’s best performance was back in April-June FY15 when it managed to clock almost 7% of the market share.
