Two more Toyota plants coming to North America

First the Tundra, then a Camry in NASCAR, now they are building trucks in Texas?! The line between domestic and import cars will become even fuzzier as Toyota continues its assault on becoming the number one auto manufacturer in North America and the world.

Over the next 2-3 years, they will add two more assembly plants in North America, bringing the total to seven including the Subaru facility in Indiana. Plans for the new facilities are to build the Yaris and an as-of-yet unnamed sport-utility. With five North American vehicle manufacturing plants currently cranking out 4,200 vehicles daily (1.55 million in 2005), including the Tacoma, Corolla, Camry, Lexus RX350, Tundra, Sequoia, Sienna, Solara, and Avalon, we can only fear what is next. The newest facility in San Antonio, Texas is building the 2007 Tundra pick-up truck. Hmm, a Japanese automaker building trucks in Texas. Someone at Toyota is laughing all the way to the bank



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EL34i - 10/30/2006 10:20:33 AM

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I'm thinking of opening real estate clinics in Japan, myself.

XYZZ - 10/30/2006 12:10:00 PM

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jerry flint of Forbes refers to toyota motors as GODZILLA.

TMC seems even more unstoppable than that fictional monster. but when they make the BEST automotive products on the planet, what's to stop 'em?

2JZSoarer - 10/31/2006 4:16:45 PM

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TOYOZILLA thats a better name lol !!!

AUDBMLEXMRC - 10/30/2006 12:28:37 PM

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Wow! Here we can clearly see the difficulity to accept that other can also be strong!
I can undersatand the reason of this article. We scare to loose the ground and to be invade d by others!

This kind of articles show how much we could have narrow mentality. Don't need to mention that TOYOTA are employing hudreds of european poeple in their factory in France and creat jobs. The same in US.
But as humain mental we see first evey evolution with a fatalistic point if vew.
It's a pity!

Homer008 - 10/30/2006 9:00:13 PM

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Germany have proliferated auto mechanic shops to become a very prosperous venture business across the U.S.