Friday, November 01, 2002
Two Japanese newspapers, Nikkan Kogyo Simbun and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, reported that San Antonio has been selected for the auto maker's sixth assembly plant in North America. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia have all been competing for the plant.
Toyota has car assembly plants in Kentucky, Indiana, California and Canada and has broken ground on another plant in Mexico, which will start producing pickup trucks in 2005.
Japanese manufacturing plants in the U.S. now accont for 21% of the evehicles produced in the U.S. This story comes on the 20th annoiversary of the start of Japanese auto production in the U.S. Learn more.
Toyota will not confirm the story. And meanwhile, Arkansas Governor Huckabee (against the advice of local Toyota officials) is planning a trip to Tokyo. Learn more.
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Toyota appears headed for Texas
