Car manufacturers in thailand

                                                        Where Are Honda Cars Made?

You've seen them in magazine ads, on television commercials and on the road. Honda is one of the world's best known and respected automotive brands. The company behind the cars is Honda Motor Company, Ltd., a multinational corporation based in Minami-Aoyama Nichome, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda designs, develops, manufactures and sells popular vehicles such as the Accord, the Civic, the CRV and many others. Honda cars are driven in many different parts of the world. Not Everything is Done in Japan.
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Ford building new factory in Thailand – to roll out new Ford Focus for ASEAN in 2012

Ford is setting up new operations to boost its presence in the Asia Pacific region with the construction of a “state-of-the-art passenger vehicle manufacturing” in Rayong, Thailand. Costing around 450 million dollars, the site is expected to be completed in 2012. The factory will initially churn out 150,000 units a year, 15 percent of which will be for local Thai market while the balance will be used for Asia Pacific and African region exports. The 750,000 sq metre assembly plant is also expected to create 11,000 new jobs for the local economy, which is made out of 2,200 directly employed by Ford while the rest will be of suppliers and dealer networks.Ford will also be spending almost $800 million on local components through Thailand’s supplier network for production at the new plant.

Ford building new factory in Thailand – to roll out new Ford Focus for ASEAN in 2012

This new plant will be a flexible facility producing a range of vehicles and fully integrated to support body assembly, paint, trim and final assembly. The next-generation Ford Focus (shown above) is expected to be the first model to roll off the production line in 2012. The Malaysian Focus currently comes from the Philippines. Ford currently produces Ford Fiestas and Mazda 2s for the Malaysian market at their AutoAlliance Thailand plant which is a JV with Mazda. This factory also supplies Fiestas to the ASEAN region, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

High Yen Drives Japanese Carmakers To Importing More. But Is It Good?

You think Japan is import-adverse? Have a look at that chart that follows, and you will see a wondrous trend: Japanese automakers are importing more and more foreign owned cars to Japan. Some of them even from the U.S. Now, the imports will increase. Not from the US, but from Thailand. Nissan has started shipping their March subcompact, made at its Thai plant, to Japan The Nikkei 
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Why do car manufacturers come to Thailand, not Vietnam?

The fact that large automobile manufacturers from around the world inject large sums of money into making cars with new modern and environmentally-friendly technologies in Thailand has grieved Vietnam automobile industry.The American Ford Motor Company has announced a new investment package worth $450 million in a new modern automobile factory in Thailand. Prior to that, Japanese Mitsubishi Motors had also decided to invest $450 million in its third factory in Thailand, which will churn out a new generation of environmentally-friendly vehicles. The third factory, to be located near the two existing factories in the west of Thailand, will have the capacity to churn out some 50,000 products per annum, and is expected to wheel its first products off the assembly line in 2012.http://vietnambusiness.asia/why-do-car-manufacturers-come-to-thailand-not-vietnam/

Thailand offers "eco car" producers tax breaks


Thailand has increased tax incentives to attract global car makers to invest in the production of small passenger vehicles for its domestic and export markets.The state-run Board of Investment (BOI) said car manufacturers investing in its "eco car" projects would enjoy cuts of up to 90 percent in import tariffs for foreign car parts and material used for producing the vehicles.The parts entitled to the low tariff must not be available from local producers, it said in a statement."The BOI incentive aims to encourage investors to move their manufacturing base to Thailand," Industry Minister Chanchai Chairungruang said in a statement issued by the BOI."It also aims to expand investment opportunities in the automotive sector, which will benefit the automobile parts industries in Thailand in the long term," he said.Several car makers, mostly Japanese but also India's Tata Motors Ltd, have shown interest in investing 10 billion baht ($295 million) each in "eco car" projects as required by the government.According to the BOI, "eco cars" are passenger cars that must meet safety, low fuel consumption and "EURO 4" emission standards.Among the interested companies are Toyota Motor, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor, Honda Motor and Suzuki Motor.The BOI has already offered companies corporate tax exemption for at least five years provided their production of the small vehicle reaches100,000 a year within the first five years of operation.Global car firms such as Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Mazda, Isuzu and Nissan have made Thailand a big production and export base for one-ton pick-up trucks.Thailand is the world's biggest producer of the small trucks, which it exports to more than 130 countries.