Just found this on the web...not sure if it is old news or not...
TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203), Japan's biggest automaker, said on Wednesday it would build a sixth North American vehicle plant in San Antonio, Texas, with an eye to boosting its growing sales in the region.
Toyota said it would spend $800 million on the plant, which would build 150,000 Tundra pickup trucks a year starting in 2006. The plant will employ about 2,000 people.
The decision was widely expected as several newspapers have reported on details of the plan since late last year.
The new plant would raise Toyota's annual output capacity in North America to 1.65 million vehicles from 1.25 million now.
Japan's top automakers have been making big strides in the United States at the expense of local players, mainly by introducing models in the fast-growing and profitable light truck segment, which now makes up more than half of the overall market.
Ahead of the San Antonio plant, Toyota will also build a $140 million factory near Tijuana, Mexico, just south of San Diego, to produce 20,000 small pickup trucks each year from 2005.
Honda Motor Co (7267), ranked fifth in the United States after Toyota, is also racing to catch up with demand by doubling capacity at its light-truck plant in Alabama to 300,000 units a year by spring of 2004.
Nissan Motor Co (7201), Japan's third-largest automaker, will begin producing the new Titan pickup and three light trucks at its new $1.4 billion assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi, this spring.
Toyota has expanded sales volume in the United States for nine straight years to grab a 10.4 percent share of the world's biggest car market last year.
It hopes to continue growing in North America to bring its global market share to 15 percent over the next decade from 10 percent now.
Shares in Toyota were flat at 2,975 yen in early afternoon trade, compared with a 0.45 percent rise in the Nikkei 225 share average.
Originally posted by Flashcrunch TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203), Japan's biggest automaker, said on Wednesday it would build a sixth North American vehicle plant in San Antonio, Texas, with an eye to boosting its growing sales in the region.
Toyota said it would spend $800 million on the plant, which would build 150,000 Tundra pickup trucks a year starting in 2006.
Guess I know where my NEXT truck is gonna be built.
__________________ SATundra
2001 Limited, V8, 2wd, TRD, Metallic Silver Sky MODS:
TIRES: Michelin LTX M/S LT265/75/R16 load C rated
SUSPENSION: front - red/blu 4x4 HD Bilsteins shocks & HD TRD 4x4 coils providing 1.75" lift, rear - TRD add-a-leafs, Hellwig swaybar, yell/blu 4x4 Bilsteins INTERIOR: CB-Ham/Scanner/150W linear amp in custom console, 10 disc CD player, Donnelly comp/temp mirror, Toyota All Weather floormats, tinted windows, radar detector, backseat angle mod, EXTERIOR: Grizzly SS brushguard, Better Built alum toolbox w/lights, Weatherflector Ventvisors, chrome step tubes, UTR bedliner, hitch, SteelHorse Bull Rings, Mobil 1 oils, 2 TS stickers, 2 TS license frames, 2 www.TundraSolutions.com stickers, ELECTRICAL: 55W undercarriage entry lights, extra set 55W reverse lights, 55W underhood lights, DEI alarm, 12V Acc plug/engine compartment, 400watt power inverter, foglight/cargolight/acc plug/maplight mod
Originally posted by EZ2BME Where's the exact location, Joe?
BTW.......your next Tundra will literally be a SATundra
The plant will be on the southside of town. South of Loop 410 between IH 35 and Hwy 16 south. I dont believe it will be located exactly where the newspapers have said in the past. In December the city just did a big annexation in that area in preperation for this. They will start constructing some new rail lines (2 I believe) and other infrastructure (roads, utilities) fairly soon. This coming Monday Toyota (big boys) will be in town at the Institute of Texan Cultures for the "formal announcement". That should be a BIG event here locally.
Hum I guess Toyota will have to think of a "jingle" like Ford has here, "built Texas tough".
__________________ SATundra
2001 Limited, V8, 2wd, TRD, Metallic Silver Sky MODS:
TIRES: Michelin LTX M/S LT265/75/R16 load C rated
SUSPENSION: front - red/blu 4x4 HD Bilsteins shocks & HD TRD 4x4 coils providing 1.75" lift, rear - TRD add-a-leafs, Hellwig swaybar, yell/blu 4x4 Bilsteins INTERIOR: CB-Ham/Scanner/150W linear amp in custom console, 10 disc CD player, Donnelly comp/temp mirror, Toyota All Weather floormats, tinted windows, radar detector, backseat angle mod, EXTERIOR: Grizzly SS brushguard, Better Built alum toolbox w/lights, Weatherflector Ventvisors, chrome step tubes, UTR bedliner, hitch, SteelHorse Bull Rings, Mobil 1 oils, 2 TS stickers, 2 TS license frames, 2 www.TundraSolutions.com stickers, ELECTRICAL: 55W undercarriage entry lights, extra set 55W reverse lights, 55W underhood lights, DEI alarm, 12V Acc plug/engine compartment, 400watt power inverter, foglight/cargolight/acc plug/maplight mod
Originally posted by Possum Hmm.... the next TS Jamboree in San Antonio Texas!
aside from meeting all you texans....i'ld love to try to make it to a TS Jamboree in the San Antonio Tundra Plant. hell, i'll even settle for us having the meet in their parking lot! wouldn't those pics be cool? all of us with our tundras and TOYOTA plant in the background!
__________________ 2006 Tundra Limited DC: UniChip | Ram Air Performance System | TrueFlow Sealed Air Intake | 24" Bassani X-Muffler with Quick Time Electric Cutouts | IS Rims w/ Michelin LTX A/T2 265/70R16 | SkidRow FSP | Hellwig Antisway Bar | Retrax Bed Cover | Bazooka VSE | front/rear parking sensors | power tailgate lock | debadged | tinted windows | 2x baby mod (car seat) 2005 Sienna: Purple Plazma Headlights | de-badged | 2x baby mod (car seat)
Tundras to be built in San Antonio Texas!
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