Honda Motor Co. has raised output at North American plants by the fastest pace of any carmaker in the region this year as the company pushes to reclaim U.S. market share lost to competitors and natural disasters in 2011.

Honda plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico built 748,217 cars and light trucks in the year's first five months, a record for the period and 67 percent more than a year earlier, according to the company.

Toyota Motor Corp. followed with a 64 percent North American increase to 787,777 vehicles.