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Originally Posted by Buick61
So it's both Texas AND Indiana production of the Tundra that's being suspended.
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Toyota plans three-month shutdown of Tundra pickup plant in Texas
Published: Thursday, July 10, 2008 | 9:24 AM ET
Canadian Press: Dee-Ann Durbin, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DETROIT - Toyota Motor Corp. is planning significant changes to its U.S. manufacturing plants because of the rapid market shift away from trucks and sport utility vehicles.
A Toyota official said Thursday the company plans a three-month shutdown at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, that makes the Tundra pickup.
Along with the inventory-trimming shutdown at the Texas factory, which began producing the full-size pickups in November 2006, the official said Toyota plans to stop making pickups in Princeton, Ind., shifting the Indiana plant to the Highlander SUV.
The official asked not to be identified because a formal announcement from the Japanese automaker wasn't expected until later in the day.
Toyota also plans to start producing the Prius hybrid in the United States at a plant it is building in Mississippi.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/080710/b071023A.html