#HondaSouthCarolina

It’s not often you hear about a manufacturer moving production from Mexico to the United States, but American Honda is doing just that. Production on Honda side-by-side MUVs will transfer in 2013 from Honda’s facility in Mexico to its Timmonsville, SC plant.

“These changes are part of a global Honda strategy tied to future growth forecast in the side-by-side segment,” American Honda says in a release.

According to American Honda, the plan is for MUV production in Mexico to wrap up in 2013, with production to begin in South Carolina this coming summer to meet the needs of U.S. customers and for export to global markets. Honda’s MUV line currently consists of the Big Red, but we wouldn’t be at all surprised if it expanded in the near future.

Honda’s South Carolina facility recently reached a major production milestone, rolling its two millionth ATV engine off the production floor. The milestone engine was for Honda’s TRX500 Foreman Rubicon model.

Honda South Carolina, which is located in Timmonsville, SC, features a 536,150-square-foot facility that sits on 625 acres and is dedicated solely to the production of Honda ATVs. Opened in 1998, the assembly plant added engine production in the year 2000. Honda South Carolina is one of nine major plants in the U.S., and has the ability to produce 266,000 ATVs and 310,000 engines annually. Since 1998, the facility has manufactured more than two million Honda ATVs.