Toyota shifts Tacoma pickup production from Texas to Mexico; continues $13 billion US investment

boynoyce · Jan 17, 2020

Superdave1.0 said: ↑

I'd rather have a Canadian built Taco. Oh well.
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Mexico is the new Canada.

I.eat.tacos · Jan 17, 2020

Superdave1.0 said: ↑

I'd rather have a Canadian built Taco. Oh well.
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Your horn won't honk anymore. Instead it'll gently say, "Sorry eh."

Kidding!

Superdave1.0 · Jan 17, 2020

boynoyce said: ↑

Mexico is the new Canada.
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TheCochese · Jan 17, 2020

Lt. Dangle said: ↑

Why?
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You probably already know the answer.

hiPSI · Jan 17, 2020

enforcertaco91 said: ↑

Thx for merge ..srsly didn't see other listing on topic.

Edit ... wonder if the Texas Tacos will increase in value now ?
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Seriously, have you ever heard of two identical vehicles built at different plants being worth more or less? Sheesh.

Stocklocker · Jan 17, 2020

I for one am happy. This is finally a frickin’ import forum. I’m kinda an import guy.

enforcertaco91 · Jan 17, 2020

hiPSI said: ↑

Seriously, have you ever heard of two identical vehicles built at different plants being worth more or less? Sheesh.
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Um yeah there has been a few threads on the topic , here's one
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/quality-difference-between-mexico-and-usa.544807/

Have a good weekend sunshine.

boynoyce · Jan 17, 2020

So, since there were never any manual transmission Tacoma’s built in Mexico, is 2021 the last year for the MT Tacoma?

Superdave1.0 · Jan 17, 2020

boynoyce said: ↑

So, since there were never any manual transmission Tacoma’s built in Mexico, is 2021 the last year for the MT Tacoma?
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You will now be able to order dclb MT.

Stocklocker · Jan 17, 2020

boynoyce said: ↑

So, since there were never any manual transmission Tacoma’s built in Mexico, is 2021 the last year for the MT Tacoma?
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I sure hope so.

.劉煒 · Jan 17, 2020

Evlkarl said: ↑

Here is some more useless info.

PRINCETON, Ind. -- Toyota will reallocate vehicles to different North American factories next year in a bid to make production lines and supply chains more efficient, the automaker said here Friday.

The initiative reflects Toyota's step-by-step move away from plans that were enacted in the dire days of the Great Recession when it needed to keep plants operating and avoid layoffs.

With the new plan, Toyota is taking the gloves off to produce vehicles in pockets of manufacturing efficiency.

The company will move the Sequoia large SUV from a Princeton, Ind., factory to a San Antonio plant, where production will start in 2022. That decision will put both of Toyota's full-size body-on-frame products -- the Sequoia and the Tundra pickup -- in the same plant with a shared supply base.

Toyota will simultaneously move Tacoma midsize pickup output from San Antonio and combine it with Tacoma production at a plant in Guanajuato, Mexico.

That shift will give San Antonio more capacity to churn out additional Tundras.

The Indiana plant will then devote freed-up capacity and resources to build the Highlander large crossover and Sienna minivan.

Factory utilization key
Over the past decade, Toyota kept some vehicles in production where they helped sustain factory utilization rather than where they made the most sense for optimal productivity and manufacturing efficiency.

The Tacoma, for example, was added to the San Antonio plant in 2010 during a period of surging small car popularity and falling truck demand, when it became apparent that sales of the full-size Tundra were not enough to support the Texas plant.

The upcoming moves are part of major manufacturing investments that Toyota is undertaking in North America.

The company is midway through a five-year plan to spend $13 billion through 2021 on revitalizing and expanding its U.S., Canadian and Mexican plants and building new capacity.

Toyota and Mazda Motor Corp. are building a $1.6 billion joint-venture assembly plant in Huntsville, Ala., that will come online in 2021.

On Friday in Princeton, Toyota showed visitors a plant that underwent a $700 million refurbishing to build the redesigned Highlander. That expense does not cover whatever future costs arise from easing the Sequoia out of the plant next year.

The $13 billion capital program still has $5.9 billion that is not assigned -- enough to build four or five new assembly plants, if the company chose to do so.

Bullish outlook
But Toyota's U.S. outlook is remarkably more bullish today than it was a decade ago, when the Japanese giant was stunned to suddenly find itself with too many American workers and too many American factories -- anathema to a company that trains its personnel to identify and eliminate muda, or waste, at every turn.

That moment caught Toyota with a partially constructed vehicle assembly plant near Tupelo, Miss., that it decided it did not need after all. It later completed that plant.

Today, Toyota said it needs additional North American capacity and workers.

Despite its plan to carve the Sequoia out of Indiana and send it to San Antonio, Toyota still needed to hire 150 workers at the Princeton plant to keep up with forecasts for the Highlander. That was on top of 400 additional workers it hired there in 2017.

https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/toyota-shuffles-model-lineup-us-factories
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Yeah. No jobs lost? It's just time for the Baja Taco and Tex-Mex jokes.

Rottencotton · Jan 17, 2020

I decided to post in this thread just to piss off all the people complaining there is another thread about this.

Superdave1.0 · Jan 17, 2020

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I decided to post in this thread just to piss off all the people complaining there is another thread about this.
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Well I'm offended I vote perma ban.

Stocklocker · Jan 17, 2020

Guess no more Tacomas for Canada. Canada only got Texas Tacos since we declared war on Mexico over the whole maple enchilada copyright thing.

skiploder · Jan 17, 2020

enforcertaco91 said: ↑

Um yeah there has been a few threads on the topic , here's one
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/quality-difference-between-mexico-and-usa.544807/

Have a good weekend sunshine.
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Yeah HiPSI, that thread resulted in kbb, NADA and black book adding a new question to their pricing determination....they are now specifically asking where a car is made in order to calculate value.

duh.

boynoyce · Jan 17, 2020

Stocklocker said: ↑

Guess no more Tacomas for Canada. Canada only got Texas Tacos since we declared war on Mexico over the whole maple enchilada copyright thing.
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Toyota has that covered.

There will be a covert team deployed at the US side of the Canadian border with fine line black Sharpies changing the 3’s to 5’s on the vin stickers...

Stocklocker · Jan 17, 2020

boynoyce said: ↑

Toyota has that covered.

There will be a covert team deployed at the US side of the Canadian border with fine line black Sharpies changing the 3’s to 5’s on the vin stickers...
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There’s gonna be a lot of suspicious canucks wondering why their tacos now smell like jalapeños.

melikeymy beer · Jan 17, 2020

boynoyce said: ↑

So, since there were never any manual transmission Tacoma’s built in Mexico, is 2021 the last year for the MT Tacoma?
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specter208 · Jan 17, 2020

This is disappointing to hear. Tacoma’s have for a long time been made in the US. Hope this a temporary move.

Slick Taco · Jan 17, 2020

boynoyce said: ↑

And US workers don’t work hard and take pride in what they do / aren’t detail oriented ?
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Definitely not saying that. I'm merely saying quality will not suffer because it's made in mexico as apposed to the US

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