Toyota's 5 million reasons to love Canada

RAV4 built in Woodstock

With the opening of the Toyota manufacturing facility in Woodstock about four years ago, Toyota now has the capacity to build more than 500,000 cars per year in Canada.

A story in the K-W (Waterloo Region) Record sums up the overall results of these two factories by noting Toyota -- as of today -- has now built more than 5 million cars in Canada.

Wow!

The Woodstock plant has played a huge part in Toyota's performance in Canada. The local manufacturing landscape / market has enjoyed a significant improvement since the Toyota announcement to build here and then build the RAV4 here was made official in June of 2005.  

From The K-W (Waterloo Region Record:

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Toyota builds 5 millionth vehicle in Canada

CAMBRIDGE – Toyota celebrated another big milestone on Monday.

It produced its five millionth vehicle in Canada – a red Lexus RX350 crossover that rolled off the line Monday afternoon at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada’s Lexus plant in Cambridge.

“From humble beginnings, today TMMC is a globally respected manufacturing operation that can produce more than 500,000 vehicles per year,” Ray Tanguay, the company’s chair, said in a statement.

“Our success has allowed us to create more good jobs for Canadians and become a better corporate citizen for our community.”

Toyota started making vehicles in Canada in October 1988, in a plant in Cambridge that originally was designed to produce 50,000 cars a year. Now, it makes more than 500,000 vehicles a year in plants in Cambridge and Woodstock.

Toyota noted that it builds two vehicles in Canada for every vehicle it sells here.

The company, which makes the Corolla, Matrix and Lexus RX350 in Cambridge and the RAV4 in Woodstock, employs more than 6,500 people in the two cities.

Due to previously announced expansions, it plans to add another 400 jobs in Woodstock by January and another 400 in the Lexus operation in Cambridge by January 2014.

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