Honda Motor Co. Begins Building Luxury Model at East Liberty, Ohio, Plant.(Originated from Detroit Free Press)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 1996 by Adler, Alan L.

EAST LIBERTY, Ohio--Feb. 19--Today is another milestone for Honda Motor Co. The first Asian carmaker to transplant operations to the United States, Honda becomes the first to build a luxury model here.

For the first time, a Japanese automaker is saying it can achieve with U.S. workers in a U.S. plant the kind of world-class quality in a luxury model it once believed possible only from its workers and plants in Japan.

When the company first moved here in 1982, its U.S.-assembled cars, Accord sedans, were designed in Japan and put together in Ohio with mostly imported parts.

But Honda's new two-door Acura CL coupe, which starts on the East Liberty line today, was designed completely in the United States, and initially will be sold only through this...

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