Scion Birthplace

[navylife59]

Interesting little note that I discovered on Toyota Japan's website. The Scion tC is made in Toyota's Tsutsumi plant #6 and the Scion xB is made in a Toyota Affiliate plant; Central Motor. Also the bB is made in a different Affiliate; Daihatsu Motors plant.

I only have 4 more days here in Japan to visit the Scion birthplaces and make a report back to ya'll.


Toyota Plants

Name Main products Start of
operations Number of
employees
Honsha Plant Chassis for Land Cruiser 100, forging parts, chassis mechanical parts 1938 3,981
Motomachi Plant Crown, Brevis, Progrès, Mark X, Mark II Blit, Estima 1959 6,360
Kamigo Plant Engines 1965 3,378
Takaoka Plant Corolla, Vitz, ist, Ractis 1966 4,860
Miyoshi Plant Chassis parts, chassis mechanical parts 1968 1,585
Tsutsumi Plant Prius, Camry, Premio, Allion, Caldina, Scion tC, WISH 1970 4,904
Myochi Plant Engines, chassis casted parts, chassis mechanical parts 1973 1,628
Shimoyama Plant Engines, exhaust emission control devices 1975 1,425
Kinu-ura Plant Drivetrain casting parts 1978 3,037
Tahara Plant LS, GS, IS, Land Cruiser Prado, 4 Runner, RAV4 1979 6,890
Teiho Plant Machinery, dies for casting / molds for plastic parts 1986 1,479
Hirose Plant R&D and production of electronic parts and semiconductors, etc. 1989 1,380


Note: Data are as of March 2006; data of main products as of November 2006.


Toyota Manufacturing Subsidiaries and Affiliates In Japan

Name Main products Start of
operations Number of
employees Equity share
(%)
Toyota Motor Kyushu, Inc. Harrier, Harrier Hybrid, Kluger, Kluger Hybrid, IS, ES 1992 4,191 100.00
Toyota Motor Hokkaido, Inc. Transmissions, transfers, aluminum wheels, drivetrain parts, etc. 1992 1,702 100.00
Toyota Motor Tohoku Co., Ltd. Mechanical and electronic parts 1998 237 100.00
Toyota Auto Body Co.,Ltd. Hiace, Liteace, Voxy, Noah, Estima, Prius, Land Cruiser, Alphard, Ipsum, Townace, Regiusace, Coaster, Estima Hybrid, Alphard Hybrid, LX470 1945 10,628 56.03
Kanto Auto Works, Ltd. Century, Crown, Corolla Spacio, Corolla Fielder, Isis, Belta, SC, Auris, BLADE 1946 5,528 50.08
Central Motor Co., Ltd. Raum, MR-S, Scion xB, Corolla Axio, Corolla hatchbacks 1950 1,194 77.00
Gifu Auto Body Industry Co., Ltd. Hiace 1940 958 47.71
Daihatsu Motor,Co., Ltd. Rush, Passo, Probox, Succeed, bB, Porte, SIENTA 1907 11,209 51.19
Hino Motors, Ltd. Dyna, Townace, Liteace, FJ Cruiser, Toyoace, Hilux Surf 1942 9,507 50.11
Toyota Industries Corp. Vitz, RAV4 1926 10,584 23.51


Note: Data are as of March 2006, unconsolidated; data of main products as of December 2006.

[Jeff31384]

Cool. I work for Lexus, if you see any plants for the LS460 please tell me about them... Thanks

[navylife59]

Sadly I am back Stateside with no tours under my belt. The weather was crappy and after 2 earthquakes and 2 typhoons, we had enough and left.

[Jeff31384]

Ohh... That's cool. Must have been sweet seeing all Toyota product in it's home though.