Many of the pickups, crossovers and sedans on American roads begin their lives in Mexican factories. Plant output figures, shift changes and a 25% Section 232 tariff on imported autos keep those assembly lines in the news. Here are twelve popular vehicles built in Mexico, each tied to a named plant.
The tech news worth your time: 400,000+ professionals from Google, Apple and OpenAI read Techpresso, a daily email with the most interesting tech news and insights.
We may earn a commission if you sign up.
1. Chevrolet Silverado: Silao’s Workhorse
Chevrolet’s full-size pickup is assembled at General Motors’ Silao plant in Guanajuato, which, according to Cluster Industrial reporting, turned out 196,342 pickups from January to August 2025.
That pace equaled roughly 73.6% of an installed capacity near 400,000 vehicles. The plant opened on July 27, 1995, runs three shifts and employs about 6,700 people, which shows how heavily one of America’s best-known trucks leans on Guanajuato labor. The plant’s 2025 total came from only eight months of production data, so the full-year number would be higher.
2. Ram 2500 Heavy Duty: Saltillo’s Heavy Haulers
The Ram 2500 through 5500 Heavy Duty trucks are built in Saltillo, Coahuila, where the Stellantis media fact sheet says production began in 1995.
The plant built its four millionth vehicle, a Ram 2500 Laramie, on August 12, 2019. With the 2500, 3500, 4500 and 5500 Heavy Duty models all listed among its output, the heavy-duty end of the Ram lineup is firmly a Mexican product. Stellantis updated the plant’s fact sheet in April 2026, so the details reflect current operations at Saltillo.
3. Ford Maverick: Hermosillo’s Compact Pickup
Ford’s compact pickup comes from the Hermosillo plant in Sonora, where trade-press figures credit it with 48,302 Mavericks in the first months of 2025 alone.
The same plant built 39,555 Bronco Sports in that stretch, for a combined 87,857 vehicles against an installed capacity of 300,000 a year. The Maverick count covers only part of the year, so full-year output is not captured in the report. Installed capacity of 300,000 a year suggests the site still had room to grow beyond the early-2025 pace.
4. Chevrolet Blazer EV: A Shrinking Electric Line
Chevrolet’s electric Blazer is built at General Motors’ Ramos Arizpe plant in Coahuila, where Mexico Business News reported that output fell 50%, from 33,765 units in 2024 to 16,826 in 2025.
Softer demand for electric vehicles also pushed the plant toward a single shift. Production continues, but the numbers show how quickly a nameplate can lose volume when buyer appetite cools. The 2025 drop of nearly half shows that a high-profile electric model built in Mexico is still exposed to swings in American demand.
5. Nissan Sentra: Aguascalientes’ One-Model Plant
Nissan’s compact sedan has a factory of its own: Mexico Industry reports that the Aguascalientes A2 facility is dedicated to the Sentra.
From there the model ships to 17 countries, which makes the plant an export hub rather than a purely North American supplier. A line devoted to a single nameplate also ties that site’s fortunes closely to how well the Sentra sells. Several other plants on this list split their output between models, so the Sentra’s dedicated site stands apart.
6. Honda HR-V: Celaya’s Export Engine
Honda assembles the HR-V in Celaya, Guanajuato, where Expansión reported that about 194,612 units were built in 2024, roughly 85% of them exported to the U.S.
The plant opened in 2014 and has capacity for 200,000 vehicles a year, so 2024 output ran close to the ceiling. In April 2025 Honda said it had made no production decisions affecting its Mexican operations, though reports suggested a shift toward the U.S. was being weighed.
7. Volkswagen Jetta: Puebla’s Shrinking Shifts
Volkswagen builds the Jetta in Puebla, a plant that, per Expansión’s September 2026 report, produced about 335,716 vehicles in 2025 and had 11,815 workers on the payroll in mid-2026.
The same factory builds the Tiguan. One of its three shifts is closing, affecting roughly 800 jobs, a sign that even long-running Mexican volume is being trimmed when the plant’s output no longer fills every shift. The 11,815-person payroll gives a sense of how much local employment hangs on the Puebla lines.
8. Volkswagen Tiguan: A 1.3 Million Milestone
Puebla has produced the Volkswagen Tiguan since 2017, and Mexico Industry noted that the plant has now built more than 1.3 million units of the SUV.
Sharing a roof with the Jetta, the Tiguan depends on the same workforce, which currently faces a shift closure. The cumulative total is a running plant figure rather than an annual one, so it says little about current yearly volume. Production there began in 2017, so the 1.3 million total accumulated over roughly eight years.
9. Kia K4: Pesquería’s Newest Hatchback
Kia’s K4 hatchback entered production at the Pesquería plant in Nuevo León at the end of March 2025, according to Cluster Industrial’s report.
The factory has installed capacity of 400,000 units a year and turned out 270,700 vehicles in 2024. Those figures describe the whole plant rather than the K4 alone, so the new hatchback’s own volume remains unreported. The 2024 total gives a baseline against which the K4’s arrival can be measured once full-year figures appear.
10. Mazda CX-30: Salamanca’s Two-Million Mark
Mazda’s compact crossover is built in Salamanca, Guanajuato, where Cluster Industrial reported that nearly two million vehicles have been produced since opening, including 174,524 in 2025.
The milestone unit was a CX-30 Signature, and the first Mazda3 left the line on January 6, 2014. The plant has run continuously since then, making the CX-30 one of its signature products. Output reached 174,524 vehicles in 2025, a sizable share of the plant’s lifetime total.
11. BMW M2: San Luis Potosí’s Milestone Coupe
BMW’s high-performance coupe is built in San Luis Potosí, where BMWBLOG reported that the plant’s 500,000th vehicle was a Velvet Blue M2 CS.
About 3,700 people work there, and operations began in June 2019 with capacity of up to 175,000 vehicles a year. The 3 Series is due to leave the plant in November 2026, but the 2 Series Coupe and the M2 stay. The 500,000th-vehicle milestone arrived in October 2025, a little over six years after the first cars rolled out.
12. Audi Q5: Mexico’s First Premium Car
Audi’s Q5 is built at San José Chiapa near Puebla, where production started in 2016 and, as Audi’s own Mexico fact sheet puts it, the Q5 became the first premium car made in Mexico.
The plant built 146,784 vehicles in 2025 with a workforce of 4,943, according to the same document. Being manufacturer-published, the figures describe the whole factory instead of the Q5 alone. The same document lists the plant’s start of production as 2016, so the Q5 has anchored the site since its first year.
The tech news worth your time: Subscribe to Techpresso →
We may earn a commission if you sign up.
More from Morning Overview
- Common allergy, bladder and sleep pills tied to sharply higher dementia odds
- NOAA now gives this winter a 75% chance of the strongest El Nino since 1950
- Doctors warn a silent liver disease now affects one in three American adults
- The FBI told the rest of ShinyHunters to surrender after a 24-year-old was arrested
