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Toyota to Upgrade Long Beach Manufacturing

Ford Motor Company successfully lobbied the Johnson Administration to expand the tax to Japanese automakers. The simple workaround at what was then Atlas Fabricators in 1972 was to produce Toyota truck beds for pickup trucks imported into the U.S. from Japan, a strategy also used by other importers.  Two years later, Toyota bought the operation and renamed it TABC, which become its first manufacturing investment in the U.S. It’s ironic that Ford, one of the Detroit Three companies that lobbied  for protection against imported light trucks, later did minor stateside work on the Turkish-built Transit Connect to escape paying the chicken tax. Continue reading

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2016 Toyota Tacoma Pickup Debuts at NAIAS

Tacoma been the best-selling mid-size truck in the U.S. for ten years running because Dodge dropped its Dakota and Ford walked away from its Ranger. Tacoma faces formidable competition from the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon now that GM has reentered the segment. Continue reading

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Toyota Recalls Trucks For Tire Pressure Monitor Defect

About 22,000 trucks are affected in the U.S. and had optional wheels with LT tires instead of the standard P-metric tires installed during truck manufacturing in California, Indiana and Texas. Either Toyota vehicle processing centers or Toyota dealers could have switched the wheels and tires. Continue reading

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