Fuente: Automobile Magazine

Según un reporte de Automobile Magazine, de las 15 plantas automotrices mas productivas de los Estados Unidos, mas de la mitad corresponden a marcas domesticas. De hecho Ford con sus plantas de Kansas City y Dearborn ocupan los dos primeros puestos para el año 2011, ya que la primera fabricó unos impresionantes 460,338 automóviles durante el año pasado, de los cuales 321,322 correspondieron al Escape, 135,039 al Ford F-150 y 3,977 al Mazda Tribute.

En Dearborn, Ford construyo nada menos que 343,888 unidades de las pickups F-Series y 473 Lincoln Mark LT. En el tercer puesto tenemos a la planta Hyundai de Alabama, de la cual salieron 227,663 unidades del Sonata y 114,499 del Elantra sedán, con un total de 342,162 automóviles.

Nissan y su planta de Smyrna, Tennesseee, la cual tuvo el honor de ser la primera de esta marca en territorio estadounidense, fabricó durante el 2011 un total de 333,392 automóviles, camionetas y SUVs. Además de los Nissan, de esta fabrica también salieron 2,415 unidades del Suzuki Equator, camioneta pickup basada en el Nissan Frontier.

Y en cuanto a Toyota, con su planta de Georgetown, Kentucky, la mayor que esta empresa posee fuera de Japon, produjo durante el año pasado un total de 315,889 unidades, todos los cuales correspondieron al modelo Camry sedán.

A continuación tienes la lista con las 15 plantas automotrices mas ocupadas de Estados Unidos:

1. Ford (Kansas City Assembly Plant en Claycomo, MO) - 460,338
2. Ford (Dearborn Truck Plant, Dearborn, MI) - 342,162
3. Hyundai (Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Plant, Montgomery, AL) - 342,162
4. Nissan (Nissan North America, Smyrna, TN) - 333,392
5. Toyota (Georgetown, KY) - 315,889
6. General Motors (Fort Wayne, Roanoke, IN) - 307,454
7. Honda (Marysville Auto Plant, Marysville, OH) - 285,258
8. Kia/Hyundai - (Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia, West Point, GA) - 282,316
9. General Motors - (Lordstown Complex, Warren, OH) - 279,674
10. General Motors - (Fairfax Assembly Plant, Kansas City, KS) - 279,250
11. General Motors - (Lansing Delta Township, Lansing, MI) - 277,277
12. BMW (BMW Manufacturing Co., Spartanburg, SC) - 277,074
13. General Motors (Arlington, TX) - 269,624
14. Honda - (Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, Lincoln, AL) - 264,324
15. Ford - (Chicago Assembly Plant, Chicago) - 262,730

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