5 Popular Car Brands That Build Cars In Canada

The website of nan Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association (CVMA) makes nan bold declare that "the North American automotive manufacture was calved successful Canada," since nan Walkerville Wagon Works mill built 117 Ford Model C cars successful 1904. For nan record, though, Ford's Mack Avenue mill successful Detroit built much than 1,000 Model A cars opening successful nan summertime of 1903. Still, Canada was decidedly successful nan crippled correct from nan beginning, and for a time, it was nan second-largest shaper of cars connected nan planet.

Some carmakers were Canadian-born alternatively than being U.S. companies. One specified shaper was nan McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which yet became nan genesis of General Motors of Canada. This marque started arsenic nan McLaughlin Carriage Company successful agrarian Ontario earlier switching to building cars successful 1907. Initially, it utilized Buick engines earlier GM acquired McLaughlin's assets successful 1918 and transformed it into GM Canada. Most of its brands would beryllium acquainted successful nan U.S., but it besides sold Canada-only marques specified arsenic Acadian and Beaumont.

Honda became nan first Japanese marque to build cars successful Canada erstwhile it opened a mill successful Alliston, Ontario. The first conveyance rolled disconnected its assembly statement successful 1986, launching a caller era for nan Canadian car industry. Now, arsenic of January 2026, location are talks betwixt nan Canadian authorities and South Korea aimed astatine bringing Korean conveyance factories to Canada. Tariff issues frighten immoderate Canadian car production, though moving Canadian car accumulation stateside is overmuch easier said than done. For now, present are nan awesome car manufacturers successful Canada and nan brands they build there.

As we saw above, Ford's manufacturing beingness successful Canada dates backmost to 1904. Today, nan Blue Oval operates 3 awesome accumulation accommodation successful Canada: nan Oakville Assembly Complex, nan Windsor Engine Plant, and nan Essex Engine Plant. In 2023, nan Ford Motor Company of Canada built much than 160,000 vehicles and 277,000 engines, employing a full of 7,000 workers successful these facilities, on pinch 18,000 much astatine Ford and Lincoln dealerships astir nan country.

Ford built its midsize Edge SUV astatine nan Oakville Assembly Plant for 18 years, but accumulation ceased erstwhile nan Edge was discontinued aft nan 2024 exemplary year. The Lincoln Nautilus, nan Edge's upscale cousin, was besides built location until accumulation shifted to China successful 2023. Initially, Ford planned to build EVs successful Oakville, pinch assembly group to statesman successful 2027 aft an extended retooling of nan factory. However, those plans fell done successful mid-2024, aft which nan institution decided to build its F-Series Super Duty pickup location instead, pinch Ford investing $3 cardinal successful caller motortruck production.

The Windsor Engine Plant successful Windsor, Ontario, opened successful 1923, making it Ford's oldest operating installation successful Canada. This 2.1-million-square-foot installation sits connected a 149-acre tract and employs astir 670 people. The existent building, making love to 1994, houses a accumulation statement that builds nan 6.8-liter Triton V10 for nan Ford E-Series chassis cab vehicle. Nearby successful Windsor is nan Essex Engine Plant, opened successful 1981. The Essex installation has manufactured engines and parts during its history, and it currently produces nan 5.0-liter Coyote V8, nan 7.3-liter Godzilla V8, and nan 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel V8.

GM has astir a twelve awesome accommodation astir Canada, ranging from afloat assembly plants to centers for research, design, and testing. Major assembly plants see Oshawa Assembly, St. Catharine's Propulsion Plant, and, until very recently, nan CAMI Assembly Plant. At nan coming time, nan only progressive GM works assembling complete vehicles is nan Oshawa Assembly Plant successful Oshawa, Ontario, though engines are produced elsewhere, while nan Canadian Technical Centre operates respective investigation and engineering accommodation and nan McLaughlin Advanced Technology Track.

The Oshawa Assembly Plant sits connected nan tract of GM of Canada's original factory, wherever McLaughlin-Buicks were produced successful 1907, and wherever carriages had been built earlier that. The Oshawa works closed for 2 years from December 2019 to November 2021, aft which it reopened to nutrient light-duty and heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverados, nan only Chevy vehicles made successful Canada and, currently, nan only GM vehicles assembled successful nan country. GM precocious eliminated nan 3rd displacement astatine Oshawa but besides announced that it will put $63 cardinal to upgrade nan plant's stamping operations.

GM dropped nan BrightDrop electrical van, nan only different conveyance it assembled successful Canada. With that, it idled nan CAMI Assembly Plant successful Ingersoll, Ontario, wherever nan van was built. The move resulted from slower electrical conveyance income than expected, partially owed to nan changing regulatory and taxation situation successful nan U.S. With nary evident replacement for nan BrightDrop, owed to nan analyzable tariff situation, GM whitethorn waste nan CAMI works to a Belgian consortium willing successful producing nan BrightDrop for nan European market.

Honda of Canada Manufacturing's field successful Alliston, Ontario, features 2 main accumulation facilities, prosaically named Plant 1 and Plant 2. The first conveyance Honda built successful Alliston was an Accord that rolled disconnected nan assembly statement successful 1986. Since then, Alliston has go 1 of Honda's premier assembly plants successful nan world, producing 400,000 vehicles per twelvemonth and employing much than 4,000 people. The installation presently builds Civics successful Plant 1 and CR-Vs successful Plant 2 for nan U.S. and Canadian markets.

Plant 1 has built Civics since 1988, and it currently builds nan Civic Sedan, Civic Coupe, and Civic Si models. More than 5 cardinal of them person rolled retired nan factory's doors. Plant 2 has had a much varied output complete nan decades, having produced nan Odyssey minivan, nan Pilot SUV, and nan Ridgeline pickup truck, on pinch nan Acura MDX and ZDX SUVs. In 2012, accumulation switched complete wholly to nan CR-V, 1 of the astir freely and comfortable compact SUVs.

In May 2025, Honda announced that immoderate CR-V accumulation would move from Alliston to Honda's U.S. factories successful consequence to tariffs. Somewhat confusingly, nan institution announced that location would beryllium nary simplification of either nan workforce aliases accumulation successful Alliston, though it's difficult to spot really building CR-Vs for nan Canadian marketplace only could support nan aforesaid measurement of production. In that aforesaid month, Honda besides announced that it was delaying an $11 cardinal scheme to build an EV accumulation hub successful Alliston.

Stellantis' main Canadian accumulation accommodation are nan Windsor Assembly Plant, nan Etobicoke Casting Plant, and nan Brampton Assembly Plant, which is presently idle. Chrysler's accumulation history successful Canada dates backmost a period to nan constitution of a mill successful Windsor, Ontario successful 1925. The Chrysler Corporation of Canada soon produced models for its Plymouth, DeSoto, and Dodge divisions, arsenic good arsenic Graham Brothers trucks. The original 280,000-square-foot Windsor works has grown into nan modern accumulation facility.

With Chrysler being absorbed into nan trans-Atlantic conglomerate known arsenic Stellantis successful 2021, Stellantis is nan existent proprietor of nan Windsor Assembly Plant. Windsor builds nan Chrysler Pacifica, nan plug-in hybrid Pacifica, nan Chrysler Voyager, nan Canada-only Chrysler Grand Caravan, and nan gas-powered Dodge Charger, pinch nan caller Charger SIXPACK going into accumulation successful December 2025. Stellantis closed nan mill successful consequence to tariffs successful early April of 2025 but reopened it connected April 22.

The Brampton Assembly Plant successful Ontario had been producing nan Jeep Compass until 2025, erstwhile Stellantis moved accumulation to nan U.S. successful consequence to tariffs, prompting threats of ineligible action from nan Canadian government. As of February 2026, Stellantis is holding discussions pinch nan Canadian authorities astir restarting accumulation astatine Brampton and re-employing its 3,000 idled workers. In nan meantime, immoderate of nan Brampton workers person been transferred to a caller 3rd displacement astatine nan Windsor plant.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Inc. (TMMC) operates 3 plants successful Canada: nan North and South Plants successful Cambridge, Ontario, and nan West works successful Woodstock, Ontario. Toyota's manufacturing successful Cambridge commenced successful 1988 pinch nan accumulation of Corollas. All 3 plants usage nan Toyota Production System aliases TPS, which is designed to destruct discarded and shorten nan clip to transportation of each vehicle. TPS became influential successful manufacturing worldwide crossed galore industries. Quality remains high, pinch TMMC winning its 23rd JD Power Plant Quality Award successful 2025.

The TMMC South Plant is nan original mill connected nan Cambridge site. In its first year, it knowledgeable increasing pains, producing conscionable 153 Corollas. Today, nan works produces much than 110,000 vehicles per year. In 2000, it became nan first Toyota works extracurricular Japan entrusted pinch building Lexus models, and coming it focuses exclusively connected Lexus, producing nan RX 350, RX 350h, and RX500h. In 1997, nan North Plant opened connected nan aforesaid site, producing nan Corolla earlier switching to nan best-selling RAV4. It besides produces nan Lexus NX.

Approximately 40 minutes to nan westbound of nan original Cambridge manufacturing center, Toyota opened nan appropriately-named West Plant successful Woodstock. Production of nan RAV4 commenced present successful 2009, followed by nan RAV4 Hybrid successful 2019. The West Plant converted to nan Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) successful 2018, followed by nan North Plant nan adjacent year. Toyota's website describes TNGA arsenic "a programme of structural innovation, starting pinch changing nan basal architecture of vehicles." It's a accuracy that's designed to make some nan vehicles and nan manufacturing process smarter.