Call it the miscalculation of the decade, at least so far for the Toyota Tundra.
The first note of taps for the Tundra were sung last week.
Toyota is cutting production of the Tundra. According to the Wall Street Journal, they may even pull production of the light truck from the Princeton, Alabama plant that Toyota built expressly for the Tundra and consolidate it with Tundra production in San Antonio, Texas.
Build a state-of-the art new plant to build a new truck. Within two years of introducing it, the nation’s premier financial newspaper says you may pull the entire show out of the plant designed for the product?
Toyota cited the overall ten percent decline in sales in the light truck market as justification for the production cuts, asserting that they were merely designed to keep production in line with demand.
However what it all means is that - long-term - the Tundra is dead.
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