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    Honda Cars to restore production soon

    Honda Motor Company is expected to bring back production close to normal in the next few months after it was struck with huge parts shortage due to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. With such good news coming in, it is expected that the problem of delay in delivery would be no more in the scene and Honda would be able to set a definite schedule of its upcoming cars such as Honda Brio. As per the reports, production restoration process would take at least this month and would pick up more in July or latest by August.

    Ritesh
    Ritesh
    Published On May 20, 2011 17:12 IST
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    As per recent reports, the company is said to have communicated to its dealers in the United States that it would restore supply to an extent this month and will be working in full swing next month. Honda is said to have told the US dealers to be positive and that despite short inventory supplies as compared to March 2010, production will gear up in the coming months. 

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    It is worth mentioning that following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a majority of car makers including BMW, Daimler Peugeot, Fiat and Volkswagen had to face production constraints as they all depend on the supply of parts from various vendors based in Japan.

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    According to recent reports, since the production is getting back on track, there would be 11 percent increase in the cars built in July compared to June. This would be a great for Honda as its rival Toyota Motors has already announced that it would normalize production much ahead than anticipated. Moreover, due to the production outage, production of Honda cars was affected and it had impacted the launch schedule of strikingly fuel efficient small car Honda Brio. Besides, delivery of the existing models such as Honda City, Honda Civic, Honda Jazz, Honda CR-V and New Honda Accord was also affected. 

    Honda Brio

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    Grabbing eyeballs these days is the French auto giant Renault which after having a soar experience earlier in the Indian auto market is planning to comeback with the launch of Renault Fluence. Renault Mahindra JV launched Mahindra Renault Logan which was recently launched as Mahindra Verito. Renault is back again with a vengeance and envisages to launch 5 news cars in India under its badge. Renault Fluence will be the first offering from the French auto giant which is slated to launch on March 23. Renault Fluence price is expected to fall under the range of Rs13 lakhs.

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    Ritesh
    <p>Having worked as an Auto Journalist for the past 5 years, Ritesh is keenly passionate about digging more on automobiles and things related. His journey as a journalist so far consists of different profiles that helped him groom on various platforms within the automobiles industry. He kept rolling on technical experience during his career as a Road Test Editor, which finally took him to a level where he turned to be an Editor-in-Chief of CarDekho.com, India's no. #1 automotive giant.&nbsp;</p> <p>Another side of his creative life is easily visible the photography that he carries out in order to serve the CarDekho news readers with the latest and natural pictures of newly launched cars. Additionally, he is the one who foresees all auto news articles that are to be published making it sure that CarDekho readers get the latest and the best automotive news first. "Life is a highway, keep driving", Says Ritesh.</p>Read more

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