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Two more Toyota plants coming to North America

PlanoA4 submitted on 10/30/2006 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:46:06 AM

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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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Two more Toyota plants coming to North America

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EL34i

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

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Posted on 10/30/2006 10:20:33 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -5   

XYZZ

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?

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Posted on 10/30/2006 12:10:00 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

2JZSoarer

TOYOZILLA thats a better name lol !!!

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Posted on 10/31/2006 4:16:45 PM | | Votes: 1   

AUDBMLEXMRC

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!

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Posted on 10/30/2006 12:28:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

huu76

It's a good thing the UAW is still around to milk as much out of the big 3 as they can before they go under, or else the union guys would be really screwed.

Still, in the end, the Japanese will still be seen as the enemy while the Germans are given a green card to build their cars at home and sell them here.

I wonder how many parts plants Toyota has built on top of their manufacturing facilities?

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Posted on 10/30/2006 8:26:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

huu76

Just want to ask again. Germany, what have you done for N.America lately?

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Posted on 10/30/2006 8:34:05 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

Homer008

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

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Posted on 10/30/2006 9:00:13 PM | | Votes: 1   

huu76

I belive Ford did this by making cars available to everyone, so these mechanics would have a market to begin with (unless you're talking about all the business electrical fires, bad brakes, leaky engines create for mechanics?).

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Posted on 10/31/2006 9:52:00 PM | | Votes: 1   

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