Toyota could be considering moving its Tundra pickup truck production entirely to its San Antonio production facility, a new report finds. As of now, the Japanese automaker splits Tundra production between its Princeton, Indiana plant and its newly built plant in San Antonio, Texas.
According to an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Toyota is seriously considering the shift. However, in a press statement released on Thursday, Toyota says it has no plans to move Tundra production from its Indiana facility.
Despite the denials from Toyota, it would appear that there is a strong business case to move Tundra production entirely to the San Antonio facility. Last year, Toyota targeted 200,000 Tundra sales, but came up just short — selling units 196,555 — despite offering heavy incentives. This year, Tundra sales are already off the mark and the Japanese automaker has slowed the truck’s production, along with the truck’s SUV counterpart — the Toyota Sequoia. The San Antonio plant has the annual capacity to produce 200,000 Tundras, meaning that the facility could easily handle Toyota’s production needs.
If Toyota does decide to make the move, it wouldn’t necessarily mean the end of the Indiana plant as it also makes the full-size Toyota Sequoia SUV.
04/03, 1:34 PM
posted by:
carrerajh
Heavy incentives should include gas cards and transmissions on the Tundras. Might help sales…
04/03, 1:50 PM
posted by:
shaver
They should offer a 4 cylinder stick like in the T-100.
04/03, 1:53 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
No unions and all the illegal mexicans you could want, who can blame ‘em.
04/03, 1:55 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
Truck market sucks these days.
shaver: funny as hell!
04/03, 1:58 PM
posted by:
AmericanMade
Tundra’s are peices of crap.
04/03, 1:58 PM
posted by:
murderedout
No Unions = Low slave wages!
04/03, 2:02 PM
posted by:
murderedout
You never see old running Tundras on the road. You see old Fords and Chevy trucks still running with 300,000+ miles. New Tundra= camshaft, propshaft and engine failures.http://www.lemonauto.com/complaints/toyota/toyota_tundra.htm
04/03, 2:10 PM
posted by:
shitalker
well this is what toyota gets when they want to play with the big boys here in the states. now they gotta do what the big boys do here, and that is to suffer from this gas price that’s killing them all.
1 billion into this program so far and doesn’t seems like it’s going to return anytime soon. i’m not a big toyota fan but they know how to run lean, and this is one of the steps that they’re doing. we’ll see if they could pull this one off, and if they make it, we should all learn from them sushi eating folks.
04/03, 3:06 PM
posted by:
mayer_ray_nagin
Trucks should be built Texas Tough in truck country. Not by a bunch of cornhusker drop-outs.
04/03, 3:21 PM
posted by:
LaCaLover
Pick-ups are what the gardener and the pool boy drive.
04/03, 4:23 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
^HUH
04/03, 4:26 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
That link doesnt work murderedout
04/03, 5:14 PM
posted by:
dmbpearl
So LLN, when GM does something like this it’s called “shutting down a plant” or “idling a plant”, but when Toyota does it you call it “shifting production”. Nice.
04/03, 5:40 PM
posted by:
DeansterTJ
Texas?! Nothin’ but queers and steers
04/03, 6:26 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
an’ i don’t see no horn on you, boy!
04/03, 6:32 PM
posted by:
Stridder44
Texas = full of queers!
04/03, 7:16 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
Uhm…here’s a better idea Toy Ota, cease production of your so-called “pick-up trucks” altogether and leave the real pick-up truck production to the big boys, a.k.a. the Domestics.
04/03, 7:24 PM
posted by:
gbb
There are plenty or wetbacks in SA to build all the crappy trucks America’s morons could ever want.
04/03, 10:58 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
It’s Tony Romo’s fault. Isn’t just about everything wrong in Texas his fault since Jessica-gate?