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First, Arrive Chinese-built cars in North America.
DETROIT China made cars have quietly arrived in North America for the first time, but without the bamboo dashboards and quirky names that have adorned the recent auto shows.
The cars, in fact, are not even the myriad Chinese car manufacturers including North American ambitions were hampered by the poor quality and sometimes laughably poor performance in crash tests.
Instead, the Japanese automaker Honda is cross the threshold by importing subcompact cars into Canada of one of its factories in China this month, Honda Canada began receiving its smallest model, Fit, from China instead of Japan, as part of a strategy to produce more cars outside its home country.
The decision allows Honda to earn more profit in a segment of the automobile market where margins are extremely thin, especially as the high value of the yen cuts into all Japanese manufacturers of operations abroad.
The yen has been getting stronger, Jerry Chenkin, executive vice president of Honda Canada said Tuesday.
Few car buyers are likely to notice the change, and there is no expectation that the cars made in China are destined for the United States anytime soon, but Honda imports are significant because vehicles are among the few categories of consumer products in North America for which manufacturers had not turned to China to try to reduce costs.
There was much discussion about Chinese cars sold in North America, but we hadn t seen it yet, said Michelle Krebs, senior analyst at automotive research website This is a well-known global car manufacturer, major, so that eliminates some of the challenges facing Chinese automakers.
All major automakers have factories in China, they generally use to make vehicles to sell only 3 percent, or 580,000, of the vehicles produced in China last year were exported Many car manufacturers are reluctant to use this capability to provide other countries because they want to maximize sales in China, now the largest auto market in the world.
M. Chenkin said the move had relatively little to do with the direct costs He declined to comment on the wage differences between Japan and China.
A version of the Honda Fit came to Canada from China.
From what I understand, in terms of production cost for the Fit, the difference between China and Japan is not significant, he said, but the exposure of the yen exchange rate and other concerned Honda manufacturers.
Incomes below disposable and rising gasoline prices in Canada means that small cars like the Fit are more popular there than in the profit of Honda in the United States on the Fit is still pressed by right import January 6 percent, while many competing models enter Canada duty-free rights because they are made in Mexico or the United States.
Honda is building a plant in Mexico that is scheduled to start assembling the Fit for the United States and other countries in early 2014 Honda is likely to use this plant to provide Canada and, most likely to import China temporary.
Honda Fit exported from China to 27 countries, mainly in Europe where it is sold as Jazz, for about five years, there is no concern in Canada about the quality of its production, said M . Chenkin.
We are confident that these vehicles meet all Honda standards, he said the company has imported electricity generators in Canada Honda plants in China for some time without encountering quality problems or resistance to customers, he said.
John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda, said that there was no plan to provide dealers with the United States Fits manufactured in China.
Ms. Krebs said Honda and other automakers would have a more difficult time selling cars assembled in China to Americans than Canadians and Europeans Although the products made in China are common in the United States, most cost a small fraction of the price of a car even established automakers like Honda are hesitant to risk turning off buyers with Chinese imports, particularly because the US is a major source of profit and prestige.
Canada has always been much more open to cars of the places he was not acceptable to the U S, Ms. Krebs said Honda has a production system that uses worldwide Consumers may be enough confident that the same standards apply.
Analysts note that American car buyers were largely skeptical of Japanese and Korean vehicles in their first days here and would tend to react similarly to models made in China, at least initially a study earlier this year by the Cabinet Board GfK Automotive found that about a third of Americans were open to buying a car of the younger respondents were more favorable China.
The Fit is a relatively small volume car in Canada with sales in November 2802 it was down 55 percent from the same period in 2010, mainly due to supply shortages following the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan in March.
Honda has a significant presence of manufacturing in Canada, where it builds the Civic, several Acura models and engines is hiring an additional 400 workers in Alliston, Ontario, where the production of CR-V sport utility vehicles will start next month.
Nick Bunkley reported from Detroit and Ian Austen from Ottawa.
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