Honda, though, seems to have come off much the worst amid the massive flooding in Thailand. In a blow to the company in what's already been a formidably tough year, Honda’s assembly plant in Ayutthaya, on the north side of Bangkok, was completely submerged and will be out of action for some while yet. Other Honda plants in Asia and Japan, as well as those in the United States and Canada, had to make production adjustments due to the limited supply of parts from Thailand – which, as with the situation after the Japan earthquake, underlines how interlocked the global supply chain has now become