Honda Scraps 1,000 Flood-Ravaged Cars in Thailand

Dec. 27, 2011
Most of the cars to be scrapped are mid-sized City sedans and Brio and Jazz hatchbacks. The scrapping process at Honda's plant in the central province of Ayutthaya is expected to take one month, the company said.

Honda on Tuesday began destroying more than 1,000 cars in Thailand to reassure customers that no vehicles damaged in the country's recent flood crisis will ever be sold.

The scrapping process at Honda's plant in the central province of Ayutthaya is expected to take one month, the company said in a statement.

The plant is located in the Rojana Industrial Park, where heavy flooding in early October brought production to a halt and aerial pictures showed hundreds of new cars submerged in muddy water.

"While we were able to relocate many new cars that were awaiting shipment to a safe area, 1,055 vehicles that remained in the plant were finally damaged by the flood," said Pitak Pruittisarikorn, executive vice president of Honda Automobile Thailand.

"We will not sell any of the damaged cars to customers, or sell or reuse any of the parts," he added.

Most of the cars to be scrapped are mid-sized City sedans and Brio and Jazz hatchbacks. Production has yet to resume at the factory.

Thailand earlier this month said that more than 700 people died in the floods, which at their height affected 65 of the 77 provinces in the low-lying nation and forced the closure of seven major industrial parks, disrupting global supply chains.

The waters since have receded significantly but many areas still face a major cleanup operation.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2011


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