Toyota Motor Corp will boost production capacity for its Lexus luxury cars in Japan by about 35 percent in 2009 to meet growing demand in emerging countries such as Russia and China, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday. Japan's largest automaker will increase annual output capacity to about 850,000 cars in 2009 by adding equipment at two domestic plants, the newspaper said.
A spokeswoman said no such decision had been made.
The plants in Aichi and Fukuoka prefectures currently have a combined capacity of 600,000 cars a year, and Toyota aims to increase that to 630,000 this year, the Nikkei said.