Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California (TMMBC) is a
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 ...
automobile
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manufacturing facility located
Tijuana
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, Baja California, Mexico that opened in 2002. The facility currently produces the
Toyota Tacoma for the North American market and pickup truck beds. The plant is a building on a site of 700 acres that has the capacity to produce 166,000 vehicles per year and employs 2,000 people.
History
The plant is a building on a site of 700 acres, employing 700 people.
TMMBC is Toyota's first automotive manufacturing plant in Mexico and builds
Tacoma pickup trucks. The plant was built for an annual capacity of 180,000 truck beds and 30,000 Tacoma pickup trucks.
In January 2006, Toyota announced that the plant capacity would be expanded to produce 50,000 Tacoma pickup trucks, and 200,000 truck beds. The Tacoma truck beds are used for total Tacoma production.
As of January 2016, Toyota reports truck production capacity of 90,000, employing 1,100.
[http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2378]
In 2016, Toyota announced a $150,000,000 expansion of TMMBC that would increase capacity by 2018 to up to 160,000 units.
[https://tijuanaedc.org/toyota-announces-production-expansion-baja-california-plant/] In 2017 TMMBC made 104,622 Tacomas. The increased production at TMMBC was also intended to allow adjustments at their
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) is an automobile manufacturing factory in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America, itself a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan. The TMMTX assembly l ...
lines, which produce both Tacoma and
Toyota Tundra models, to satisfy seasonal changes in Tundra orders.
TMMBC produces only V6 double cab short bed versions of the Tacoma, the most popular configuration.
[https://news.pickuptrucks.com/2016/09/toyotas-tijuana-plant-pumps-out-tacomas.html]
In January 2017, Toyota wrote in a press release: ''Our manufacturing facilities in Baja, Mexico
.. support production at our
San Antonio, Texas plant, where 3,300 team members produced over 230,000 Tundras and Tacomas in 2016.
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had written a Tweet ''“Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S.,” “NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.”''[ theatlantic.com]
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Toyota began operations in a new truck plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Guanajuato
Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Guanajuato (TMMGT) is a Toyota automobile manufacturing facility located in Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato, Mexico that opened in December 2019. The facility currently produces the Toyota Tacoma for the North American ...
(TMMGT) on 16 December 2019.[https://mexico-now.com/index.php/article/5763-toyota-started-operations-in-guanajuato]
Products made
* Toyota Tacoma (2004–present)
Awards
For the Annual J.D. Power and Associates
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Initial Quality Survey (IQS) of 2008, TMMBC was awarded the Gold Plant award for Quality among all North and South American automotive manufacturing plants.[http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2008063]
References
External links
''Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California'' at Toyota.com
{{Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota factories
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Mexico
Companies based in Tijuana