Fuji Heavy Industries U.S. Plant to Build Toyota Camry
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(FHI) announced today that the Toyota Camry is to be built at Subaru of Indiana ... of Toyota hybrid technology personnel exchanges and other issues. ...
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Fuji Heavy Industries U.S. Plant to Build Toyota Camry Page 1For immediate release March 13 2006 Toyota Motor CorporationFuji Heavy Industries Ltd. Fuji Heavy Industries U.S. Plant to Build Toyota Camry FHI to Develop Toyota Vehicles; Subaru Hybrids to Use Toyota System TokyoTOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) and FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIESLTD. (FHI) announced today that the Toyota Camry is to be built at Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. (SIA) FHIs North American production base. The two companiesalso announced that FHI will develop Toyota vehicles and that they will further consider the development of an FHI hybrid vehicle based on the Toyota HybridSystem. Under this arrangement SIA which currently produces the Subaru Legacy Outback Baja and Tribeca on its two production lines is to produce the Camry for the North American market with a production capacity of 100000 units a year starting around the spring of 2007. The hitherto Subaru production will be consolidated onto one line; the other line following modifications that will introduce Toyota production technology and the Toyota Production System will be used to produce the Camry.Along with allowing SIA to achieve an annual production capacity of about 240000 vehicles the new arrangement is expected to create about 1000 additional jobs at SIA once full Camry production is in place. In joint preparation the dispatch to TMCof about 10 FHI production engineers started on Feb. 1 Concerning Toyota vehicle development by FHI both companies intend to promptlydecide on a project that is expected to involve about 100 FHI engineers. To discussdevelopment requests from TMC and midtolongterm joint product development as well as with a view toward mutually advancing the technological developmentcapabilities of both companies the dispatch to TMC of about 20 FHI vehicle engineers started on Feb. 1 As for the development of an FHI hybrid vehicle based on the Toyota Hybrid System the two c ...
Source: www.fhi.co.jp
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