Anyone know?

 

Hi

Yes Suzuka

Until recently is was built in the Takenazawa Plant near Utsunomiya in the Tochigi Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.

I visited last December, it was good to see the S2000s and NSXs being hand built.

Of course the manufacturing of S2000s and NSXs along with the Insight was due to end this year at Takenazawa and be relocated to Suzuka, in the Mie prefecture, home of the Janaese F1 GP, west of Nagoya.

 

Thanks you. I didn't know the Insight was built at the same factory. Now I have two of the three. Someday, hopefully I will own an NSX and complete the package.

 

S2000 assembly through April 2004 was at the Takanezawa plant, which was considered their flagship factory. It was originally created exclusively to build the NSX. The S2000 shared an assembly line with the aluminum-bodied NSX and Insight. It was best described as a small-number mass-production custom factory where high-tech production technology and old-time craftsmanship come together. Rather than a heavily automated assembly line, the S2000 was constructed at a series of workstations by a number of teams. Following an announcement in 2003, Honda closed the Takanezawa Factory and moved the entire facility to Suzuka Factory in May 2004. Honda said this was done to integrate production - with the engine to the completed vehicle being performed in one location.

The Suzuka Factory was established in 1960. At the time of the transfer it had 7,300 employees and could produce 2,200 units per day. Production included Civic, Integra, and others. The new small line was to produce 60 units per day. Existing Suzuka Factory equipment was combined with the exclusive equipment transferred from Takanezawa Plant, making it possible to achieve small-volume yet low-cost production characteristics. The engine production equipment for small-volume models used by Tochigi Technical Center, Honda Engineering Co., Ltd. was also transferred.

 

Interesting info, I knew it was built somewhere in Tochigi...due to the label C&D gave it in one of their comparo's

So I guess I have one of the last models built from the original plant then?