Some figures on Toyota’s economic impact in the USA. Toyota North American vehicle manufacturing totals:
From Toyota’s web site: Toyota Manufacturing in the USA [the broken link was removed]: by 2008, Toyota will have the annual capacity to build 1.81 million cars and trucks, 1.44 million engines, and 600,000 automatic transmissions in North America.
The company’s direct employment in North America is more than 38,000 and direct investment is nearly $16.8 billion with annual purchasing of parts, materials, goods and services from North American suppliers totaling an additional $26 billion.
Toyota Touts Impact on U.S. in Billboards [the broken link was removed] :
The messages highlight numbers, such as 13 — “Donuts in a baker’s dozen; Toyota’s U.S. investment, in billions,” and 386,000 — “Kilometers to the moon; U.S. jobs created by Toyota.” The billboards are in some two dozen U.S. markets where Toyota has factories or supplier operations, from Fremont, Calif., where Toyota partners with GM at an automaking plant, to Huntsville, Ala., where Toyota makes engines.
Overview of Toyota’s North American Engineering and Manufacturing
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We should all be grateful that Toyota is helping out the US economy. My cousin landed a job with Toyota last week. Thanks Toyota for helping us during the hard times.