Honda too jumps into small car manufacturing in india

It won’t just be Jazz music for Honda in India. Even as it readies to formally premiere the GeNext Jazz at the Tokyo Motor Show, the Japanese auto major is working on a brand new platform for a small car that will use India as the manufacturing hub.

The new platform will be for a global car like all Honda platforms but will be primarily sourced and manufactured out of India. This will be a first for Honda which has a handful of basic platforms worldwide from which it spins out new models.

When contacted, a Honda Siel spokesperson said, “Honda is looking at two cars in the compact segment in the next few years but we don’t have details right now.”

The second small car will, along with the soon-to-debut Jazz, help Honda attack the biggest volume segment in the Indian car market. India’s booming small car market has prompted Honda to start work on a new car platform which will help it fight best-selling models like the Hyundai Santro and Maruti Alto.