Due to slow sales, Toyota will scale back on building its Tundra pickup trucks and Sequoia SUVs at its Princeton, IN and San Antonio, TX manufacturing plants. The slow-down will start in the spring but will not result in any lay offs at either plant, said Toyota’s spokesperson Mike Goss.
Goss hasn’t indicated how many fewer trucks Toyota will now make, but the uncommon move will result in the automaker slowing down its production cycle, building less than the 25,000 Tundras a month the San Antonio plant is capable of, according to Automotive News.
Last month, Toyota sold only 14,400 Tundras, while light-truck sales throughout the U.S. are down by 103,558 units in the first two months of 2008 compared to the same time period last year, likely due to higher has prices and the slowing economy.
The San Antonio plant was opened late in 2006 to compete with rivals Ford , GM and Dodge in the full-size pick-up truck market.
