Toyota Motor Corp.Highlander Hybrid SUV production moved from Japan to America

Toyota Motor Corp. Highlander Hybrid SUV production moved from Japan to America with a new investment of U.S. $ 400 million (Rp 3.5 trillion), as reported by The Wall Street Journal.Produksi scheduled to start the second half of 2013. Toyota wants to bring this hybrid SUV to its biggest market.

The plant in Princeton, Indiana, will produce more than 50,000 units per year Highlander by creating 400 new jobs as submitted Toyota North American President, Yoshi Inaba at the Chicago Auto Show on Wednesday (8/2). There will be more jobs created in the vendors that supply automotive components to support the production of Hybrid Highalander.

"We plan to export part of the Highlander production to other countries," said Inaba. "Toyota's American-made exports to 21 countries reached 100,000 units of the vehicle and we have just started exporting the Toyota Camry and Toyota Sienna minivans made ​​in America to South Korea," said Inaba.

Factory Princeton, Indiana is now producing the Highlander SUV, the Sequoia SUV and Sienna minivan with 4000 workers.

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