Honda Cars India


Honda Cars India Ltd., is a leading manufacturer of premium cars in India. The company was established in 1995 with a commitment to provide Honda’s latest passenger car models and technologies to the Indian customers. The company is a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Japan.

Facilities

HCIL's first manufacturing plant at Greater Noida began operations in 1997. Set up at an initial investment of over 4.5 billion, the plant is spread over. The initial capacity of the plant was 30,000 cars per year, which was later increased to 50,000 cars on a two-shift basis. The capacity was further enhanced to 100,000 units annually in 2008. This expansion led to an increase in the covered area in the plant from to over.
In 2015-2016 revenue of 16,870 crore, 360 crore net profit after 6 years losses in Indian operations. In July 2017, monthly sales touched over 17,000 cars thanks to the launch of WR-V. The City and WR-V sales figures were over 4,500 units a month.
Honda set up its second plant in India at Tapukara in Alwar District of Rajasthan, spread over with an investment of ₹3526 crores. It operates under the ISO 9001 standard for quality management and ISO 14001 for environment management.

Current production models

HCIL has 371 dealership outlets across 121 cities in 20 states and 3 Union Territories of India.
It sold 189,062 units during the period between April 2014 and March 2015 as against 134,399 units during the same period a year ago, recording an increase of over 44%.
Honda, the Japanese carmaker, launched a new compact SUV on the Jazz platform called WRV in March 2017.

Awards

2014

Sedan Of The Year - Honda City

2006