Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Wuhan, China, and a 50:50

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Dongfeng Motor Group Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd. known also as DFG is a Chinese holding company based in Wuhan, Hubei. Its H shares were listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Dongfeng Motor Group formed several joint ventures with other foreign automobile make ...

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Honda Motor Company is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a product ...

. It currently produces a variety of Honda models also available in other markets and a handful of China-only products. The company sells vehicles under the Honda and Ciimo marques. According to Honda, the total production capacity for the two plants of Dongfeng Honda in Wuhan, were 480,000 units, yearly. However, Dongfeng Motor Group reported that 713,840 units were produced by Dongfeng Honda in 2017.

History

Dongfeng Honda was established in July 2003 and began automobile production in April 2004 with the Honda CR-V sport utility vehicle. In February 2006, Dongfeng Honda completed a 2.8 billion yuan (US$340 million) expansion of its production facility quadrupling production capacity to 120,000 units. In May 2008, it announced plans to double production capacity to 240,000 vehicles a year with an investment of 10 billion RMB. As of 2011, product part-content included parts manufactured in Japan.

Operations

As of 2016, Dongfeng Honda has two completed production bases and a third planned. The as-yet-unbuilt factory will be situated near its 2004 and 2012 production bases in Wuhan, Hubei.

Products

Its product line includes or has included the below vehicles:

Current

Ciimo

Ciimo is a sub-marque of Dongfeng Honda launched in April 2012 and aimed at first-time car buyers. It markets a rebadged eight-generation Honda Civic featuring the design of the Japanese market model. The Ciimo brand's second product is the X-NV, which is a rebadged Honda XR-V featuring slightly restyled front end design and clear tail lamps. * X-NV (2019–present) * M-NV (2021-present)

Honda

* CR-V (2004–present) *

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(2006–present) * Elysion (2012–present) * Envix (2019–present) * Inspire (2018–present) * Life (2020–present) * UR-V (2017–present) * XR-V (2014–present) * e:NS1 (2021–present)

Discontinued

* Spirior (2009–2018) * Gienia (2016–2019) * Greiz (2015–2019) *

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(2013–2020)

Gallery

File:Dongfeng Honda Life For Guangzhou Auto Show 2020 (cropped).jpg, Honda Life File:Honda Envix 001.jpg, Honda Envix File:Honda Civic X sedan 02 China 2016-04-18.jpg, Honda Civic File:Honda Inspire (front).jpg, Honda Inspire File:2015 Dongfeng-Honda XR-V.jpg, Honda XR-V File:Dongfeng Honda 5th CR-V Hybrid form Guangzhou Auto Show in 2017.jpg, Honda CR-V File:2018 Dongfeng-Honda UR-V 370 Turbo AWD (front).jpg, Honda UR-V File:HONDA ELYSION (RC) CHINA (7) (cropped).jpg, Honda Elysion File:Ciimo X-NV 001.jpg, Ciimo X-NV File:Ciimo M-NV 003.jpg, Ciimo M-NV File:2016 Dongfeng-Honda Spirior, front 8.11.18.jpg, Honda Spirior (former) File:2016 Dongfeng-Honda Greiz.jpg, Honda Greiz (former) File:Honda Gienia 001 China 2017-03-30.jpg, Honda Gienia (former) File:Honda Jade China 2016-04-01.jpg, Honda Jade (former)

Notes

References

External links

Official site
of Dongfeng-Honda {{Automotive industry in the People's Republic of China Car manufacturers of China Motor vehicle assembly plants in China Honda factories Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2003 Chinese companies established in 2003 Dongfeng Motor joint ventures