Honda Accord Output Tops Camry in North America Expansion

Honda Motor Co.’s Accord beat Toyota Motor Corp.’s Camry in U.S. output and led in North American car production last year as Asia-based automakers set assembly records in the region amid rebounding sales.

Honda built 466,695 Accords at its Marysville, Ohio, plant in 2013, 17 percent more than the prior year, and putting it ahead of the 445,973 Camrys made at Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky, plant and affiliate Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.’s Subaru factory in Indiana. While Camry outsold Accord in the U.S., Tokyo-based Honda raised exports of its midsize model.