Toyota and Mazda to build second joint plant in North America
- Toyota and Mazda will build a second joint factory. Since 2014, Toyota and Mazda share vehicle manufacturing in their Salamanca Mexico plant inaugurated that year. The models produced in this plant are the Mazda 2 and Mazda 3, and a Toyota model derived from the Mazda 2, called Yaris (but which has nothing to do with the Yaris manufactured in Japan and France).
- The Salamanca plant has a production capacity of 300,000 vehicles per year and manufactured 186,000 cars in 2017 (compared to 193,000 units in 2016).
- As Inovev said last year in several reviews, the gap between sales in the NAFTA zone and local production is still significant at Toyota and Mazda, which does not go in the direction desired by the Trump administration. The two manufacturers have therefore decided to repeat the Salamanca experience this time on US soil in Alabama (Huntsville).
- The plant, which will enter into operation in 2021, will have a production capacity of 300,000 vehicles per year, and will manufacture Toyota Corolla and Mazda CX5. Currently, the Mazda CX5s sold in North America come entirely from Japan (164,000 CX5 shipped to the US in 2017). As for Toyota Corolla, they come from local factories (389,000 sales in 2017), but GM, Ford and Chrysler ‘s gradual pull out of the compact sedan segment allows Toyota to plan on a rise in sales of its Corolla in the US over the next few years.
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