Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HM) is an automobile factory located in Lincoln, Alabama. It builds light truck Honda vehicles (pickup trucks and crossover SUVs) for sale in North America. Production began on November 14, 2001 and was the first Honda factory to both produce engines and assemble vehicles under the same roof. HM is the sole manufacturer of the Honda Odyssey, Honda Passport, Honda Pilot, and Honda Ridgeline. Honda Alabama no longer goes by the acronym of HMA.
The first vehicle the factory produced was the Honda Odyssey in 2001. In 2004 the Honda Pilot was added as the second vehicle the factory was producing. In 2009 the Alabama factory picked up production of the Honda Ridgeline.Honda to build Ridgeline in Alabama, Automotive News, dated 11 March 2008, last accessed 1 December 2017 Between 2009-2010 the factory produced the V6-engined model of the Honda Accord, but all production of the Accord has since moved back to the Marysville Auto Plant. In 2013 the factory began production of the 2014 Acura MDX. From May 2017 Honda started to dual-source Acura MDX from both Alabama and East Liberty Auto PlantHonda shifting production ahead of new Odyssey debut, The Business Journals, Columbus Business First, by Dan Eaton, dated 10 January 2017, last accessed 1 December 2017 until Alabama switched from producing MDX to additional Pilot at the end of 2017.
In 2019, Honda Alabama produced over 351,000 vehicles and V6 engines.
Vehicles Honda Odyssey 2001-present Honda Pilot 2003-present Honda Ridgeline 2005-present Honda Passport 2019-present
Engines
Honda J engine
Previously Produced Vehicles
Honda Accord: V6 model only, between 2009-2010 Acura MDX: 2013-2017
References