a growing number of automakers have said they will not restart us production until at least midapril as demand sharply falls off for auto sales honda began its auto production halt on march 23washington honda motor co said thursday it will extend a shutdown of all us and canadian auto plant production through april 10 and at its plant in celaya central mexico until april 13 because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak hondas plant in el salto in the western mexican state of jalisco will also suspend production operations between april 4 and april 13 hondas mexican unit said a growing number of automakers have said they will not restart us production until at least midapril as demand sharply falls off for auto sales honda began its auto production halt on march 23 advt read alsotoyota to extend shutdown of north american plantsplant shutdowns hit 11 million auto workers in europe acea reuters published on apr 3 2020 at 1054 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app honda north america auto plants shutdown coronavirus outbreak international honda motor co homenewshonda extends north american auto plant shutdowns