Rumour: Honda to build 1.6L diesel in India...for exports!

Honda will be assembling its 1.6-litre diesel engine at its Tapukara plant in Rajasthan. The company plans to export these engines to Thailand from July 2017.

Currently, Honda doesn't have any cars with a 1.6-litre diesel engine in its portfolio. The diesel engines will first be sent to Thailand, where the company has a manufacturing setup and is also a potential market. The engines will later on also be exported from Thailand to other Honda factories across the globe for its international models.

Honda claims that the Tapukara plant in India has a production capacity of 1.8 lakh engines per annum, which includes the 1.2-litre and 1.5-litre petrol and the 1.5-litre diesel engines. The engine assembly produces 450 engines daily. The assembly line however is capable of making 670 engines on a daily basis, and thus, the remaining capacity will be utilised to produce the 1.6-litre diesel engines.

Source: ET Auto