Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. (MTMUS) is a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

automobile A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarded ...

manufacturing factory in

Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in ...

, United States owned by Japanese automobile manufacturers

Mazda , commonly referred to as simply Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan. In 2015, Mazda produced 1.5 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly one ...

and

Toyota is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...

. The companies announced on January 10, 2018, they planned to partner to build the plant at a cost of , which would later grow to . Ground was broken on a

Tennessee Valley Authority The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolin ...

-certified megasite in Limestone County on November 16, 2018. When fully operational, the plant is expected to employ 4,000 people building 300,000 vehicles a year. The plant began operations on September 30, 2021, building the

Corolla Cross The is a compact crossover SUV (C-segment) produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota since 2020. Adopting the Corolla nameplate, it is positioned as a more practical and larger alternative to the C-HR and built on the same TNGA-C (GA-C) plat ...

compact crossover SUV on the "Apollo" assembly line. Production of the Mazda CX-50 compact crossover SUV started on January 26, 2022, on the "Discovery" assembly line.

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* Toyota Corolla Cross (2021–present) - Apollo assembly line * Mazda CX-50 (2022–present) - Discovery assembly line

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