While the production of the Toyota Tacoma pickup began last month but was celebrated on Aug. 6 at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas. The $100 million investment boosts total investment to $1.4 billion. “The San Antonio plant has shown a great deal of resilience during the recession and is fully prepared to ramp-up Tacoma production,” said [...]
The Toyota Tacoma is one of the very few best-selling compact pickup trucks left in the United States. To give its customers a little more Toyota is offering two new accessory packages for the 2011 model year. First shown at the 2009 Speciality Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) show, the T|X and T|X Pro packages are [...]
By now, we’ve lost count of how many vehicles Toyota has recalled (it’s somewhere north of 8.1 million vehicles). According to a Toyota spokesman, the Japanese automaker is also voluntarily recalling approximately 8,000 four-wheel-drive Tacoma pickups to fix a problem in the front propeller shaft. Toyota says that a crack can develop in the rear [...]
Toyota plans to to add 850 workers when they institute a second shift at their San Antonio, Texas pickup factory in February, according to company manufacturing spokesman, Mike Goss. The move is to make San Antonio able to handle the influx of volume that it will be receiving by way of Toyota moving production of [...]
Toyota has announced the pricing details for its 2010 lineup including the new 2010 Avalon, Yaris, RAV4, Highlander, Tacoma and the FJ Cruiser. For 2010, The Toyota FJ Cruiser gets several upgrades including dual VVT-i and roller rocker arms on the 4.0-liter V6, that adds 19-hp and a 1 mpg. The 2010 FJ Cruiser also gets [...]
