Alabama has quietly become one of the country’s busiest vehicle-making states, with Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and a Mazda-Toyota joint venture all running plants there. Their output spans family crossovers, luxury utilities, a minivan and two very different pickups. Here are eleven SUVs, minivans and trucks that roll out of Alabama factories.
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1. Hyundai Tucson: Montgomery’s Volume Leader
Hyundai’s Montgomery factory assembled 158,789 Tucsons in 2025, making the compact SUV the biggest model in its lineup. The plant as a whole turned out 362,000 vehicles that year, so the Tucson outpaced every other nameplate on the site by a wide margin.
For shoppers in the United States, that means a large share of new Tucsons were put together in Alabama rather than imported. The figure also shows how heavily the state’s auto output leans on one crossover, since no other single model at the plant comes close to the Tucson’s total.
2. Hyundai Santa Fe: Gas and Hybrid Under One Roof
The same Montgomery plant built 77,040 gas Santa Fes in 2025 and a further 70,314 Santa Fe hybrids, according to the plant breakdown published by Business Alabama. Counted together, the two versions come to more than 147,000 vehicles.
That makes the Santa Fe the second-busiest nameplate in Alabama’s Hyundai operation, and the near-even split between combustion and hybrid versions shows buyers choosing both. Hybrid output on that scale is notable for a single SUV nameplate assembled at one state plant.
3. Toyota Corolla Cross: Madison’s Apollo Line
Mazda Toyota Manufacturing in Madison produced 135,680 Corolla Cross vehicles on its Apollo line in 2025. The joint venture between the two Japanese automakers also built 123,749 Mazda CX-50 crossovers there during the same year.
Corolla Cross volume at that level puts the small Toyota SUV close to the Tucson’s scale, even though it comes from a separate plant. The Madison site is a reminder that Alabama’s vehicle output is not limited to Hyundai, Honda and Mercedes-Benz, since a Toyota and Mazda partnership adds a fourth assembler.
4. Honda Ridgeline: Built Nowhere Else
Business Alabama reports that the refreshed Ridgeline pickup is assembled exclusively at the Honda plant in Lincoln. No other plant is named as a source for the truck, which makes the Alabama line its only home.
That exclusivity ties the Ridgeline’s availability entirely to one site in Lincoln. The source gives no output count for the pickup, so its volume relative to the plant’s SUVs is unknown, but the refreshed truck is an Alabama product from start to finish.
5. Honda Pilot: Lincoln’s Three-Row Anchor
Honda’s Alabama plant is the sole manufacturer of the Pilot, according to the company’s own product listing for the Lincoln site, which describes it as a sport utility vehicle. The same facility also builds the Passport, Odyssey and Ridgeline.
For the three-row Pilot, a single source plant means that every unit sold anywhere Honda markets the model passes through Alabama. The product page does not give model years or output figures, so the claim covers the current production arrangement rather than any specific sales total.
6. Honda Passport: Honda’s Biggest Light Truck Plant
The Passport SUV is built only at Honda’s Alabama Auto Plant, which the manufacturer describes on its product listing page as its largest light truck production facility. The Passport shares that factory with the Pilot, Odyssey and Ridgeline.
Four distinct models share that one assembly site in Lincoln. As with the other Honda entries, the page gives no output numbers, so the evidence is the sole-source status and the plant’s stated role rather than any annual count.
7. Honda Odyssey: The Lone Minivan
The Odyssey minivan is built only at Honda’s Alabama Auto Plant, according to the automaker plant listing for the Lincoln site. It is the one minivan in a lineup of SUVs and pickups assembled there.
The Odyssey is the only minivan among the models named, which sets it apart from the SUVs and pickups around it. Because the plant is the model’s only source, the van’s availability depends on the same Alabama workforce that builds the Pilot, Passport and Ridgeline.
8. Mercedes-Benz GLE: Vance’s Mainstay
Mercedes-Benz’s Alabama plant builds the GLE, GLE Coupe and GLS, and the facility produced more than 295,000 vehicles in 2023. Business Alabama’s February 2025 issue carried those figures along with the plant’s model list.
The 295,000 total covers the entire Vance site, not the GLE alone, so no single-model count should be read from it. The plant list still confirms the GLE as one of the Mercedes SUVs built in Alabama, alongside the GLE Coupe and the GLS.
9. Mercedes-Benz GLS: The Big Maybach Option
The large GLS, including the Maybach GLS, is built at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, as Business Alabama reported in its February 2025 issue. The same article notes that the Vance site produced more than 295,000 vehicles in 2023.
That plant total spans every model assembled there, so it says nothing about how many GLS units were made. What the report does establish is that the brand’s largest SUV, and its Maybach variant, are built in Alabama.
10. Genesis GV70: Genesis Made in Montgomery
Hyundai’s Montgomery plant assembled 20,333 GV70s in 2024, and a later report put the 2025 figure at 22,256. The compact luxury SUV is built there for the Genesis brand alongside the Tucson and Santa Fe.
The two figures show a gain of about 1,900 units from 2024 to 2025, which is small beside the Tucson’s volume but meaningful for a premium line. A separate count of 1,176 GV70 electric and hybrid versions in 2025 shows the plant also handles a battery-powered variant.
11. Hyundai Santa Cruz: The Compact Pickup
Hyundai’s Montgomery plant also builds the Santa Cruz pickup, according to a state-by-state roundup from Capital One Auto Navigator listing vehicles made in the United States. The same list names the GV70, Elantra, Santa Fe and Tucson at that factory.
Business Alabama’s 2025 breakdown puts Santa Cruz output at 32,425 units, well behind the Tucson but ahead of the GV70. The undated roundup is a general reference, so the production count comes from the newer plant data rather than from the list itself.
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