New Delhi, May 22 -- Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd (HMSI) on Thursday announced plans to expand production capacity at its fourth plant at Vithalapur, Ahmedabad district, Gujarat.

This step is likely to raise the annual production by 650,000 units, which will bring the total capacity of the fourth plant to 2.61 million units and will be operational by 2027.

"HMSI currently has four production plants in India with a total annual production capacity of 6.14 million units. In addition, the cumulative production volume reached 70 million units in April of this year, after 25 years since start of production in 2001," Honda said in a release.

Honda set up its fourth plant in February 2016 and during that time annual production ca...