NEW YORK - On the same day that credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Ford Motor Corp's rating by one notch to single-B-plus from double-B-minus, Honda Motor Co announced its selection of an Indiana town for a US$550 million passenger-car assembly plant, the firm's sixth in North America.

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