Dongfeng-Honda
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| Private joint venture | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | July 2003 (Wuhan) |
| Headquarters | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Products | Automobiles |
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Dongfeng Motor Group (50%) Honda Motor Company (40%) Honda Motor (China) Investment Co Ltd (10%) |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 东风本田 | ||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 東風本田 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 東風本田 | ||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | とうふうほんだ | ||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dōngfēng Běntián |
| Wade–Giles | Tung1-feng1 Pen3-t'ien2 |
| IPA | [tʊ́ŋfə́ŋ pəntʰi̯ɛn] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Dūngfūng Búntìhn |
| Jyutping | Dung1 fung1 bun2 tin4 |
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| Revised Hepburn | Tōfū Honda |
Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. (东风本田汽车有限公司) is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Wuhan, China, and a 50:50 joint-venture between Dongfeng Motor Group and Honda Motor Company. It currently produces a variety of Honda models also available in other markets and a handful of China-only products.
As of 2016, Honda reports total production capacity for this joint venture at 480,000 units, yearly. Unit counts may conflate whole vehicles and engines, and while Honda does mention the existence of a "Dongfeng Honda Engine Co Ltd" its location is listed as Guangzhou not Wuhan.
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 yen (US$95.5 million).
As of 2011, product part-content included parts manufactured in Japan.
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.
Its product line includes or has included the below vehicles:
A China-only product debuted in 2016 with the Gienia, a mid-size hatchback.
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