Toyota Argentina

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Toyota Argentina SA is an automobile manufacturer from Zárate ( Province of Buenos Aires ) in Argentina , which is wholly owned by the Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation .

history

The Toyota brand was already present in Argentina in the 1950s, but it did not experience its first successes until the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with the Celica and Hilux models .

Toyota Argentina , founded in 1994, began importing vehicles in 1995 and assembling vehicles in 1997.

More than $ 2 billion had been invested in the company by 2017. At the same time, the annual production capacity was increased from 10,000 to 140,000 vehicles, around 70% of which are destined for export to other Latin American countries.

The workforce, which initially consisted of 400 (or 750) employees, grew to 2,700 by 2007 and was more than 4,000 in 2011 and around 5,000 in 2015.

Models

The Toyota Hilux (since 1997) and the Toyota Fortuner (since 2005), which are locally referred to as Hilux SW4 and SW4 , are produced. The 100,000. Vehicle was produced in 2003, the 200,000. four years later. By the end of 2016 it was one million vehicles, of which 860,000 Hilux and 140,000 Fortuner.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Toyota Motor Corporation: 75 Years of TOYOTA - Overview of Overseas Production Affiliates - Latin America. In: toyota-global.com. December 31, 2011, accessed September 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Historia de Toyota Argentina. In: autohistoria.com.ar. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c ADEFA: Toyota: 20 years of production in Argentina. In: adefa.org.ar. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Toyota y sus 20 años produciendo en Argentina en el nivel más alto. In: La Opinión. March 21, 2017, Retrieved September 12, 2017 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Toyota Argentina: Toyota: 20 años produciendo en Argentina. In: toyota.com.ar. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017 ; accessed on September 12, 2017 .