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Toyota to Build New Engine Plant for Subcompacts
21 March 2008
Nikkei. Toyota Motor Corp. plans to open a fifth engine plant in Japan to begin manufacturing small-displacement engines for subcompact cars in around 2010.
The plant is expected to manufacture 1.5-liter class engines, and will likely start up with an annual production capacity of roughly 200,000 units.
Toyota plans to assemble 9.95 million vehicles worldwide this year, a roughly 50% increase from five years ago. Demand for fuel-efficient subcompacts, in particular, has been growing dramatically in and outside Japan.
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Hopefully,they will also begin building their 124 ps 1.6L in large numbers this engine looks promising and would be perfect for the next Yaris.Toyota also recently began offering a 2.0 Valvematic engine in Japan that equals the Camry 2.4 output.Now we will see technology applied to small displacement fours that in the past was reserved for six and eight cylinder engines.
Posted by: middleoroad | Mar 21, 2008 8:31:29 PM
