Announced in 2019, Honda announced that they would close their factory, which has been operating in Gebze since 97, this year, in 2021. Things went as planned and the Japanese auto giant closed the doors of the factory where the domestic Honda Civic was produced.
As of yesterday, the last Honda Civic model was unloaded from the production line in the factory, which provides job opportunities for approximately 2 thousand people. Honda Civic Sedan, whose new model will be released in October, will be imported from now on.
The factory will be transferred to HABAŞ at the end of the year.
As you know, although many models of the Japanese automobile giant are imported, the Civic Sedan model has been produced in our country for a very long time. On the last day of the factory, the employees made the following statements with the last Honda Civic off the production line; “The last vehicle of 2021 Honda Civic. There is no vehicle production in Turkey anymore.”
The factory, which has been active for 24 years, will be transferred to the HABAŞ community (Hamdi Başaran Topkapı Oxygen Factory) at the end of this year. The type of activity that Habaş will operate in this factory in Gebze has not yet been announced.
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