Toyota to export small trucks, minivans and SUVs from U.S.

Toyota to export small trucks, minivans and SUVs from U.S.

Filed under: Minivans/MPVs, SUVs, Trucks/Pickups, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota

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Toyota builds many of its U.S. market vehicles right here in America. Among them are the Toyota Tacoma, Sienna minivan and Sequoia SUV, which is built alongside its Tundra full-size truck sibling. For the most part, they are all meant to be sold in the States, their primary market. It's no secret that sales of these big SUVs and trucks are way down, and Toyota doesn't want to idle its plants if it can help it. Therefore, the Japanese automaker is rumored to be in the midst of sending these light trucks out of the country. The Tacoma, for instance, could be sent to Mexico from Toyota's plant in Baja, California. To keep the plant in Princeton, Indiana running, the Sienna could be exported to Latin America and the gas-guzzling Sequoia to the Middle East, a place where oil supplies are obviously not in danger of dwindling.

[Source: Automotive News - sub. req'd]

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Thats like Toyota to think of solutions that dont require laying off or shutting down plants... I wonder how much shipping costs would add to the MSRP.

I really hope that works out for them. Would be interesting being in those places and all of a sudden having a new exotic car to choose from.

Toyotas are not really too exotice... Maybe different...

Exotic wasnt exactly the word I was looking for. But of course they arent exotic to us; were used to them. But take them to countries that for the first time are getting the chance to buy them? Well thats different.