Toyota's North American Plants Increased Production To 2.1 Million Vehicles In 2016

The production record of Toyota Motors Corporation North American car factories has risen to 2.1 million vehicles last year. This represents an increase of 4.4 percent production from the same group last year which reached 2 million vehicles.

Left Lane News reported that Toyota factories located in the United States contributed the most number of cars, having produced 1.3 million vehicles from their assembly lines in Indiana, Kentucky, Texas and Mississippi.  The Indiana Subaru plant contributed 36,000 vehicles to the Toyota car production.

The plant in Canada, which produces the RAV 4 and Corolla among others, contributed more than 600,000 vehicles to the tally. Toyota's production in its plant operations in Mexico contributed 97,000 Tacoma pickups from the assembly plant in Baja, California. Another 43,000 Toyota Yaris cars were produced by a Mazda factory.

There have been some complications in the company's plan to build a factory in Mexico with a capacity to make 200,000 vehicles per year. Veiled threats from new president Donald Trump have not hindered the company from pursuing its production plans to start in 2019 and produce 2020 Toyota Corollas in Mexico.

The Toyota Motor Corporation factories in North America have something else to celebrate besides the high production numbers. The plants in Kentucky, Cambridge, Georgetown and Ontario are celebrating their 30^th year in existence while the Toyota plants in West Virginia, Princetown, Buffalo and Indiana have now been operating for 20 years.

The Toyota plants in North America are a substantial part of the worldwide Toyota car manufacturing operations with plants located in 18 other countries. Among countries that have Toyota manufacturing facilities, Japan has the biggest number with 16 plants.  

Toyota has recently maintained its no. 1 spot as the largest selling car manufacturing company in the world, beating Volkswagen and General Motors in the process.   With worldwide sales of 10.15 million vehicles per year, Toyota Motors Corporation needs the production output of the North American plants to meet the strong demand.