Toyota Kentucky plant about to build five-millionth Camry
Toyota's Kentucky plant is about to crank out Camry number five million. Toyota's manufacturing plant in Kentucky has been operating since 1988, and will be starting a new milestone this year when it begins to produce the Camry Hybrid. That's because after 18 years of producing the Camry, the plant will be the first in North America to produce a Toyota hybrid of any kind.
The employees of the Georgetown, Kentucky plant must all carry rabbits' feet in their pockets to have this kind of luck. Not only does their plant produce beaucoup Camrys and now the 2007 Camry Hybrid, but they also manufacture Avalons, Solaras, and engines. All of this activity at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky represents a $5.4 billion investment with an annual payroll of over $500 million. The Camry and its cousins are critical to Toyota's presence in North America, so it's no wonder this milestone is such a big deal to them.
[Source: Toyota]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Whydrive 8:23PM (9/15/2006)
I wonder who's sold more appliances in the past 18 years - Sears or Toyota...
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Chivo 9:21PM (9/15/2006)
LMFAO at #1!!!
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dave 8:56PM (9/15/2006)
does this mean 10th million recall?
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Rastus 9:46PM (9/15/2006)
It doesn't matter who has sold more, as long as they sell and make a profit.
Don't believe me? Ask your buddies over at GM and Ford...you know, the ones who are being laid off or being let go.
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aki 10:08PM (9/15/2006)
Ugly Ugly car, I would take one if it was given to me, but I would never chose this car to buy, it's not even interesting.
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far jr 10:25PM (9/15/2006)
Hooray for Toyota... an accomplishment to be proud of.
The Camry is a great car and the 2007 is stylistically better that its predecessor (my subjective opinion of course). I am NOT stating that it has the styling of ...say a Sky, Mini or Audi. But, relative to competitors like Accord, Malibu, or Impala, the new Camry holds it's own quite well.
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GhostDoggy 6:29AM (9/16/2006)
And surprisingly, I think Toyota didn't need fleet sales to make a claim a noteworthy point. And those anti-Japanese people can rest assured that those Georgetown folks are all going to h3ll for earning a living. Haha
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Chivo 6:57PM (9/16/2006)
It's not being anti-Japanese, it's that a large amount of morons bash on American automobiles just for being "American".
Although I dislike Ford, a Fusion has better styling than this pile of crap called Camry... oh, and QUALITY. Surprisingly, cars like the Ford Fusion, Chrysler 300, among other American cars are of higher quality. Toyota has gone down the drain with quality, yet, a bunch of morons out there won't admit it. What's next? Gonna claim the gov't bombed Pearl Harbor and not the Japanese, just for the sake of defending everything Japanese?
It's not the 80's or early 90's anymore. People should stop looking at badges or if its an import or domestic. Just go with what you like the best.
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Richard Warren 8:30AM (9/16/2006)
#7 No fleet?
http://www.fleet-central.com/af/stats2005/cars_web.pdf#search='total%20toyota%20fleet%20cars'
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Richard Warren 9:14AM (9/16/2006)
Think Toyota does not want fleet?
Read their own assesment. Any maker not doing fleet is missing a huge part of the market and if you leave, someone else will take your place. As to diuting the value of the product, dobt it, it's been going on forever, rebates forever on the other hand--------- well that's a whole different story.
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Richard Warren 10:21AM (9/16/2006)
The Toyota assesment of Fleet and how to tap into it.
http://fleet.toyota.com/html/ted.asp
Here is the list of Fleet vehicles
http://fleet.toyota.com/html/vehicle_availability.asp
And they are making no bones about being agressive:
https://fleet.toyota.com/html/default.asp
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Stoneman 10:29AM (9/16/2006)
Great! 5 million senior citizens confirmed on the road and driving Camry's.
Stoneman
http://www.stonemanautoreview.com
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Ted K 12:39PM (9/16/2006)
Yawwwwwwwn.
Oh wait, the camry is no longer completely bland - instead of bland looking it's ugly, all while retaining the same incredibly bland driving character.
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Appliance Repairman 6:38PM (9/17/2006)
Toyota Camry. The car for people who do not care for car care.
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jack flash 5:27PM (9/16/2006)
#4 to RATASS.... your time is coming... when enough jobs leave america .. your time is coming...
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Steve 5:36PM (9/16/2006)
The new camry handles better than most BMWs. Everybody knows this.
The most well-engineered mainstream car on the market for decades. People love it.
Rivals hate it.
Couch potatoes waste their time on autoblog criticizing the car as an appliance while filling their big bellies with potato chips and coke in front of their 24/7 running large TVs.
These trailer-trash do not realize the engineering skills to create such a masterpiece while the british cannot even make a rudimentary oil pump that would not leak within ONE WEEK.
It is only in these superbly engineered cars that your mom and dad went to work and earned their living so you could sit comfortably on your couch and bad-mouth them as appliances while vegetating with your big obese bellies.
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Richard Warren 6:07PM (9/16/2006)
Wow Steve, was that a paid commercial?
In my case I don't live in a trailer, I don't have a beer belly, I hate Coke and I don't eat potato chips. I have a mechanical engineering degree and I'll be more than happy to take a BMW and whip your ass on the track or any hairpins anytime. Name the time and place. What the hell, lets be sporting I'll take a 10 year BMW and whip your ass.
Some folks love their refigerator just like theuy love their other appliance, a Toyota.
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Agent 6:31PM (9/16/2006)
Are sales to car rental companies considered fleet?
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8189720 6:40PM (9/16/2006)
Steve was funny.
However, like Richard Warren, I too don't live in a trailer, and don't have a beer belly, but unlike him I like Coke Zero and eat potato chips... occasionally.
Also unlike him, I own a Toyota and perhaps he can kick my ass on a track, since I drive on a street where speed limits are in effect... well, I'll just have to take his word for it. Oh, and since I drive a Hybrid Camry, I'll see all of you at the pumps.
Just don't wait up for me. I'll be a while.
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Steve 6:48PM (9/16/2006)
The language you used "whip your ass" multiple times reflects your trailer origins.
Your other claims such as not having a heavy protruding belly, not drinking coke, not eating chips like a zealous monkey are also suspect.
Soon you may need hairpins in your spine to support it due to overweight just like an obese 7-series clumsily hurling around cones pretending a slalom.
Do not expect any more of my time.
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