The Toyota Solara convertible has been given a stay of execution just weeks before its production was scheduled to end. The Solara convertible was slated to end production this month, but Toyota has extended the car’s production schedule by two years.
Steve St. Angelo, president of Toyota’s Kentucky operations, revealed the news on Monday at a seminar being held in Traverse City, Michigan. “It was a car our customers demanded. They wanted it,” St. Angelo told Automotive News. The Solara is made at Toyota’s Georgetown, Kentucky assembly plant.
It was believed that Toyota had earmarked the Solara convertible for extinction due to slow sales, but apparently demand was strong enough to warrant an extra two years of production. Toyota built 28,479 Solaras in 2007, but it remains unknown how many of those units were convertibles.
