In an effort to increase the worldwide popularity of hybrids, Toyota has announced it will begin building its Camry Hybrids in Thailand and Australia. The plan will be rolled out over the next two years with production at the automaker’s Gateway plant in the Thai province of Chachoengsao beginning in 2009, followed by production in Australia in 2010.
Toyota’s Gateway plant is slated to crank out 9,000 Camry Hybrids per year while Toyota’s Australian operations will produce 10,000 units annually.
“We decided to build the Camry hybrid in Australia because Australians are keenly aware of environmental issues including global warming,” Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe told Automotive News. The Australian government is keen on expanding hybrid production and will give Toyota $33.2 million (U.S.) for the local production of Camry hybrids.
The Camry Hybrid is currently built in Japan and Kentucky.
Although the move will only slightly boost its hybrid production, the added notoriety should help Toyota to ultimately reach its goal of selling 1 million hybrids annually be early next decade.



06/10, 2:26 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
Hopefully another tsunami will hit thailand the moment they start production.
06/10, 2:53 PM
posted by:
moto-racer13
Good one Semi-erect! Nice to see that you enjoy the prospect of many people getting killed. Great character you got. Your alcholic mother must be proud of you. But in regards to this article, this is why companies like Toyota are doing so well and domestic automakers are doing so badly. Toyota builds cars that the whole world wants and needs, while domestic makers only build what America wants, and these days most Americans don’t want to buy domestic anymore. Its only going to get worse for GM, Ford, and Chrysler (is Chrysler even a car company anymore??)
06/10, 3:06 PM
posted by:
xyunya
moto-racer13, his momma is not proud of him. She had an abortion and it survived.
06/10, 3:09 PM
posted by:
Impulsive
He’s a pathetic piece of ****. If he died tonight, the world would be a BETTER place.
Hey, ‘Hemiroid’, please read and get help in understanding the following … ‘NoNameDufus’ has a six-year-old neighboour whose brain you can tap … “The Altima Coupe, as part of the fourth-generation Altima design, utilizes Nissan’s all-new, highly acclaimed “D” platform with increased body rigidity and a redesigned suspension. This new platform was developed with the objective of making Altima one of the best performing large front-wheel drive vehicles available globally.”
Suck it, bitch … deep and wide. I own you.
06/10, 3:16 PM
posted by:
xyunya
I don’t know, Impulsive, that one thing I probably would not want to own. I probably would not want to be near THAT either, I bet you it smells.
06/10, 3:26 PM
posted by:
Impulsive
It actually stinks but owning peasants is a good thing. He is a worthless peon.
06/10, 3:37 PM
posted by:
xyunya
He is a good excuse to both religious right and evolution theorists at the same time. As far as religious right concern he is a living proof that evolution did not happen and life was created by act of God and God is not always kind.
Evolutionists can use him as a living proof that white is not a smartest race and he is a living proof.
06/10, 3:48 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
My god this is so funny. So this is what gets you all off huh? Worrying about other people that have no bearing on your lives. Oh, thanks for bringing my mother into it you cowardly little $H!T, it’s funny because I would murder your @$$ on the street with little effort. xyunya, we all know your an asian retard that has no “engrish” grammar. Maybe if your eyes weren’t so squinty you could see the big picture. Oh, as far as my intelligence, I have a 3.8 GPA in mechanical engineering. So what exactly did you do in the air force again? That’s what I thought, NOTHING!
06/10, 4:05 PM
posted by:
xyunya
HerRetard, getting 3.8 from county college with your level of learning disability is not a small accomplishment.
06/10, 4:06 PM
posted by:
xyunya
Adn you know I am sorry, I take it back: un**** you
06/10, 4:07 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Nice to see Toyota once again lifting its corporate hind leg to establish new territory. If I were Toyota’s competition in these locales I’d be very wary because if they’ve already done a #1 then #2 can’t be far behind.
06/10, 4:49 PM
posted by:
Htay9500
“Hopefully another tsunami will hit thailand the moment they start production.
Comment by HemiRoadRunner, posted on June10 at 2:26 pm”
why don’t you go back to your nascar-hick trailer and shoot a gun up your ass? you can go ahead and try to diss me with your silly antics to xyunya and impulsive. I find this offensive and no I’m not defending toyota nevertheless I don’t care about them. your comment reminds me how there are many ignorant ****s that still run the streets of every major city in america thinking that they are “gangsta” and think how they’re the ****.
06/10, 4:52 PM
posted by:
brassmonkey
Yay. Toyotas built by transsexual male prostitutes in Thailand. At least Xyunya will have a job…
06/10, 4:56 PM
posted by:
e36m
So toyota is now going to Thailand and Australia to brainwash there citizens with the boredom of these cars.
06/10, 4:57 PM
posted by:
xyunya
brassmonkey, why do you look familiar? Or yeah, you look just like your mother. Hello, son.
06/10, 5:47 PM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
This will help the Austalian government’s case for Holden and Ford to rpoduce hybrids domestically.
06/11, 1:21 AM
posted by:
02WRXPSM
Wow, I thought this was a car blog — can we talk about cars, and leave everyone’s mothers and heritage and level of relative ignorance to the side, for a bit? Hybrids are not going away, and the Camry is not going away; hating the Camry is like hating the air. You all have the wrong perspective on this — it is a GOOD thing that the average person drives an average, bland vanilla car with monster understeer and no power. That makes those of us who care about power, handling and looks stand out, like sharks among minnows. If everyone had 600hp monsters with wicked grip and giant aluminum wings on the back, then driving a Camry would be innovating. Yeah, they suck, get over it. At least hate Scions instead, now THOSE are crap.
Let’s get this out of the way:
@HemiRoid: casually joking about the tsunami disaster that killed over 250,000 people is tasteless, but not as tasteless as how you were conceived by third-generation first-cousin carnies under a dumpster behind a Cracker Barrel on a carpet of dead rats and used hypodermic needles, and then born in the drunk tank of the county lock-up while your mom used up her only phone call to ring up the meth dealer and sell her ass for another bag.
I’m kidding, of course. Just wanted to see if the insult thing is fun; yeah, it is.
06/11, 3:52 AM
posted by:
NoNameDenton1
Yes, Scions are garbage, but so is the Camry, least the Malibu looks like a fun car to drive.
06/11, 9:00 AM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
WRX, are you kidding me? You sound like you think it’s cool to worry about the lives of “250,000″ people that have no meaning to you, or are you just wanting friends? People die everyday, deal with it. I don’t have to feel compassionate and ruin my day for 250,000 people that contribute to the downturn of OUR economy. Where are all of you with your bleeding hearts whenever there’s a catastrophe in the U.S? Where was all the support from these foreign nations that take BILLIONS of our tax money that our government gives to them when Huricane Katrina hit, or 100,000’s in the west that were affected by huge snowstorms, or the 9/11 attacks, the numerous fires, floods and other disaster’s we’ve had? That’s what I thought, they could care less, well so do I when something happens to them.
06/11, 9:03 AM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
If you think it’s “fun” to talk $H!T on the internet, than your a nerd. How else could I put it. Nerds like to get involved in things were they can express themselves without physical ability involved. If your not a nerd, well then go work on your WRX, or score with some chicks since you have time, that’s what I’d be doing if I wasn’t at work.
06/11, 2:29 PM
posted by:
Impulsive
SHADAP, ****ing illiterate hick … nobody cares what you think.
But I’d love to hear, again, how the Altima isn’t on the D platform, inbred waste of a life. FACK AFF.